Microsoft has released a draft of its BizTalk Framework version 2.0, which has been redefined to be Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) compliant, allowing BizTalk XML documents to travel over a network in the form of SOAP messages.
Version 2.0 has also been extended to include specifications for reliable server-to-server messaging, guaranteeing exactly-once delivery of business documents over the Internet.
Multi-Part Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions encoding guidelines have also been added to the framework to support the inclusion of one or more non-XML attachments within a BizTalk message, and the BizTalk Server 2000 will support BizTalk Framework 2.0.
"The BizTalk Framework 2.0 enhances one of the industry`s most popular frameworks for XML-based integration over the Internet," says Chris Atkinson, VP of Microsoft`s Windows DNA and Web Services Group.
The support for the SOAP 1.1 specification, which was recently submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium, allows developers to create applications and services that can be integrated more easily with the Web, independent of operating system, programming model or programming language.
The new reliable messaging capabilities defined in the framework will allow organisations to reliably transmit information via the Internet using standard transport protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
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