Updated: July 9, 2020 (February 27, 2006)

Application Integration Overview

As managing vice president, Rob Helm covers Microsoft collaboration services and client software. His 25-plus years of experience analyzing Microsoft’s... more

BizTalk Server is due for major releases in 2006 and 2008. BizTalk Server 2004, which shipped in Apr. 2004, leverages the .NET Framework to provide better scalability and improved software development over its predecessors, but as a consequence it is not backward-compatible.

The next major release of BizTalk Server planned is BizTalk Server 2006 (formerly code-named Pathfinder), which will include a new administration console, additional tools for business users to create and monitor business processes, support for SQL Server 2005 and x86-64 processor architectures, and developer tools that can plug in to Visual Studio 2005.

The next release after BizTalk Server 2006 (labeled BizTalk Server 2008 here, but not yet named) will exploit WinFX APIs introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Longhorn Server (and will be available for earlier OSs as separate components). Specifically, BizTalk Server 2008 will use a new orchestration engine that supports the Windows Workflow Foundation, the WinFX workflow engine, and will support an adapter for the Windows Communication Foundation, the WinFX application-to-application messaging technology.

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