BizTalk Connectivity Services
BizTalk Connectivity Services allows developers to create loosely coupled applications
by:
- Enabling simple publish and subscribe eventing
- Providing a globally addressable name for services
- Securely exposing a service to the Internet from behind a firewall or NAT
- Enabling multiple listeners and senders at a Uri (multicast)
- Automatically establishing direct connection between endpoints when possible
In More Detail
A common problem when developing connected, peer-to-peer applications is to enable
connections with applications through network devices like firewalls and network
address translators (NATs).
Network devices like these typically allow applications to initiate outbound network
connections but prevent them from accepting inbound network connections.
To establish a connection through these types of network devices, application developers
traditionally write custom logic to deal with establishing connections across segmented
network topologies. Because there are many different types of network topologies,
this logic often becomes very complex.
The BizTalk Services Connectivity capability provides the communication infrastructure
to achieve seamless connectivity. It allows developers to expose a service to the
Internet from behind your firewall or NAT, without writing and maintaining complex
network-traversal logic.
How you use it
Developers use the BizTalk Services Software Development Kit (SDK) to implement
services that are exposed, even from behind firewalls or NATs. The SDK includes
a set of libraries and associated documentation, as well as samples to illustrate
how to use the relay as the intermediary for firewall traversal.
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