Insights
Notes on apps, AI, architecture, and delivery reality.
A running stream of build notes and systems thinking: consumer software, AI workflows, integration boundaries, cloud delivery, product tradeoffs, and operating reality.
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Deploy configuration file to BizTalk folder
Scenario is I am to copy my file based configuration to the BizTalk installation folder (reason being in runtime I can access the registry to get the path…
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Thoughts on Enterprise Service Bus
The bus, is definitely definitely a popular word now. If you want to show off, told them you build ‘the bus’. What is it and its relationship to…
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InRule first impression
On current project, we chose the business rules engine called inRule. The product itself, compared to the BizTalk one, is very interesting, in my two days of learning,…
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CForwardOnlyEventingReadStream not fire read event
Had this problem before, the CForwardOnlyEventingReadStream instance returned from pipeline component does not fire the Read event. After checking Microsoft’s implementation, it turns out my custom stream object…
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Notes for BizTalk adapter transactions
BizTalk deciding if a receive location has transaction support BizTalk deciding which contract to call So, all these said, request-response transaction is not supported. To ensure BizTalk…
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Interesting behavior writing disassembler component
Have to write a disassembler component to wrap flat file disassembler to disassemble incoming SAP flat file then validate the disassembled XML upon BRE, if validated then promote…
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That evil pipeline component constructor
So it took me almost three hours to find out why my pipeline component does not work correctly in the design time. It turns out its constructor has…
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Notes on unit testings
So I refactored the bizunit a bit to allow for the following test step, source code I really like the NUnit.That asserts, look much comfortable compared to the…
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Delivery notification with dynamic ftp port
These are lesson learnt, scope to set to synchronized once the delivery notification occurs, it seems the orchestration continues its workflow, but it did trigger the exception handler…
