I wonder if anyone could help me with this question about Biztalk 2004.
Would it be possible to take all my messages into a master
orchestration, but then route off to a dynamically chosen child
orchestration based on the contents of an element in the message data?
So the message would come in with an element like
<orchestration_to_call>OrchestrationA</orchestration_to_call>, and it
would be routed to the orchestration named "OrchestrationA". And if I
created a new OrchestrationB, and changed the XML in the incoming
message to OrchestrationB instead, I could get the message to route to
OrchestrationB without altering the master orchestration?

Thanks for any help,
Richard

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I can think of a couple of ways to do this, not sure if there is a
better way -

1) Expose Orchestration A and Orchestration B as web services and then
you can decide to call either one using a Decide shape in your master
orchestration.

2) The master orchestration can just send the message directly to the
message box using Direct binding, Orchestration A and Orchestration B
will subscribe to the messagebox and they will have a filter to pick up
the message they need from the messagebox.

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You may not even need the master orchestration.
This can be achieved with content based routing.
You promote the orchestration_to_call element from the message into the
message context
For OrchestrationA would have a filter on the Receive shape:
MyProperties.OrchestrationName = OrchestrationA

You can declare each orchestration Receive shape to be direct or you can
bind each orchestration to the same receive port.

If a message arrives with orchestration_to_call = OrchestrationZ and there
is no OrchestrationZ you will get a Routing Failure.

If the master orchestration is required for some common pre-processing, the
same result can be achieved using direct ports in the send and receive
orchestration and promoting the same element. Although there is a trick to
promoting the element when sent from an orchestration. You need to define a
correlation set using this property and initialize the correlation on the
send shape of the master orchestration.

Greg


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>I wonder if anyone could help me with this question about Biztalk 2004.
> Would it be possible to take all my messages into a master
> orchestration, but then route off to a dynamically chosen child
> orchestration based on the contents of an element in the message data?
> So the message would come in with an element like
> <orchestration_to_call>OrchestrationA</orchestration_to_call>, and it
> would be routed to the orchestration named "OrchestrationA". And if I
> created a new OrchestrationB, and changed the XML in the incoming
> message to OrchestrationB instead, I could get the message to route to
> OrchestrationB without altering the master orchestration?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Richard
>

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Thanks for the responses - they have given me some ideas, which I will
investigate.

My master orchestration will need to be called from a web service (this
will be the external interface for the whole thing). Incoming messages
may sometimes require a synchronous response, so the whole business of
pre-processing, handing off to a chosen child orchestration based on
message data, getting a result back and passing that out of the master
orchestration would have to happen synchronously. In other cases, the
same thing might happen asynchronously. I was assuming that any
MessageBox based routing wouldn't be possible because of the need to
sometimes work synchronously.

Anyway, thanks again - we will see what happens.

Richard

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