The Services-Oriented Architectures approach to designing applications has moved well beyond the hype stage and is now being widely used as a basis for contemporary application development, with Web services often being the key enabler and way services are exposed. .NET developers can easily expose functionality as Web services, but a management layer is required in order to aggregate services into a robust solution. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 fills that need.   Developing composite appl...

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