EAI in BizTalk Services

Let's look at each of the concepts in more detail and understand their capabilities.

Sources

Sources receive a message from an external application. BizTalk Services v1 supports five common out-of-the-box sources: SFTP, FTP, HTTP, Service Bus Queue, and Service Bus Subscription. By default, the bridge exposes the HTTPs endpoint secured by the Access Control service. The various sources of bridges are shown in the following screenshot:

Sources of bridges

Bridges and the VETER pattern

Bridges are composed of sources, pipelines, and destinations. Pipelines connect two messaging systems and are composed of a series of stages to process the messages flowing from source to destination. The stages perform decoding, validation, enrichment, transformation, and routing of the messages. Each stage can be enabled or disabled for deployment from the Visual Studio properties pane. The set of stages are fixed, and out of the box, BizTalk Services v1 enables the VETER pattern. This is...