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konduru

2004-03-18, 4:37 pm

Hi all,

we want to migrate our existing application from BizTalk server2002 to BizTalk Server2004. Can any one please tell me what are key differences in the biztalk server2004.

You help is much appreciated..


Regards,
Raju.

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Kevin Tusler

2004-03-22, 5:36 pm

Raju,

The differences are many. One of the best starting points for an overview
is the following white paper.

Understanding BizTalk Server 2004 by David Chappell (October 2003)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...anding_abstract
_SYFS.asp

Kevin

Adam Tompkins

2004-03-31, 7:38 pm

Hi Raju,

I've migrated a couple of BTS2002 solutions to BTS2004. Here are my
thoughts on the process:

The automated tools are not really much help. In particular the schema
import converts all the schema elements to complex types which are difficult
to work with and generally unnecessary.

If you approach the migration as a refactoring effort you'll manage quite
nicely. Take your original solutions and use them as blueprints for the new
versions.

Orchestrations are relatively straightforward to convert manually but you
should definitely check out the new shapes and consider refactoring to make
use of them where appropriate.

For Schema's and Maps it's best just to get the old version and the new
side-by-side and recreate them manually.

For the ports and channels you'll need to do a little re-learning since 2004
does these a bit differently - the principles are all the same but the
implementation has changed.

Most of the other differences are in the development tools which are now
mostly integrated into VS.NET. These are much better than the previous
version and, from a developer's standpoint, make the upgrade worthwhile.

Best of luck!

- Adam Tompkins


"konduru" <bhaskar@flashmail.com> wrote in message
news:1fz7z3HF1Z@biztalkug.com...
> Hi all,
>
> we want to migrate our existing application from BizTalk server2002 to

BizTalk Server2004. Can any one please tell me what are key differences in
the biztalk server2004.
>
> You help is much appreciated..
>
>
> Regards,
> Raju.
>
> Sent via http://www.biztalkug.com
> everything about BizTalk Server
>



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