Biztalk Adapter Interview Question:

Explain me components Of Biztalk Server Architecture?

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Receive Port:
Listens for messages.

Adapters:
Information interchange with external systems

Pipeline, dis-assembler and sub-components:
Normalizing the schema's (wire message in its native format) of the internal messages using XML as the common language.

Message-box:
Internal XML messages are published here and then are further consumed by Subscribers:

Subscribers (Send Port and Orchestration components):
Subscribe to internal messages per metadata or message context properties.

Biz-talk Orchestration Engine:
Processing the internal messages, re-publishing them to Message-box to be consumed by other subscribers.

Send Port:
Consumes the internal XML messages, converts them to a wire messages through the associated pipeline and sub-component Assembler.

Adapter:
Conveys the wire message to the target system.
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