Schema Publishers
Organizations who either own trademarks or Internet domains will be granted permission to publish schemas for the products or standards that they require. The schemas are searchable in various ways by BizTalk members. Publishers can take advantage of reporting tools that help them gauge how other companies are using their schemas, as well as to notify users of proposed or upcoming changes.
BizTalk Partners
Partner programs will enable software companies that have developed schemas to share them along with other information to those parties who integrate their software into operations. Partners gain access to the BizTalk Framework Publisher''s Toolkit along with a logo program for a consistent way in defining and providing instructions for system integration needs.
BizTalk Steering Committee
The BizTalk Steering Committee serves as a watchdog over anyone trying to subvert BizTalk or XML into a proprietary implementation that benefits one vendor or a group of customers to the exclusion of others. The committee provides guidance and insights into BizTalk to help assure its openness and core principles. Participants in the steering committee include standards bodies, government agencies, software vendors, and selected corporate customers. The committee is tasked with reviewing proposed changes to BizTalk and incorporating feedback prior to any general release.
The BizTalk v0.81 Specification consists of a series of documents that include:
- The BizTalk Philosophy
- About the BizTalk Framework
- BizTalk v0.81 Tag Specification
- BizTalk 0.81 Framework Guidelines
- BizTalk Schema Guildelines
- Canonical Format
These documents describe various aspects and requirements of BizTalk message exchange, along with document content tagging rules and recommendations.
Next time we''ll pick up describing message flows as the basis for application integration at the business process levels through a loosely coupled request-response system of parts. If you''d like to see in-depth coverage of specific aspect(s) of BizTalk, please let me hear from you.
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