I recently let my mind drift a bit while working on my book and a few training lessons and began to contemplate this question: what are the core guidelines for a BizTalk solution? In many ways these tenets are the same for non-BizTalk solutions as well and can serve as general guidelines for all distributed application (i.e. Enterprise System) development.
An Effective BizTalk Solution is loosely coupled and operationally flexible. It has clear boundaries, carefully controlled dependencies, and is as simple as possible without sacrificing the previous tenets. The nonfunctional requirements are well understood upfront and documented. Automated tests exist at the Functional and Stress Testing level. Building and MSI construction can be performed with very few simple commands and MSI is the method for installation (that is to say deployment is a clean, self contained, and easily repeatable process).
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