About the BizTalk Orchestration Engine
At run time, the BizTalk Orchestration Engine executes XLANG/s files that are produced by BizTalk Orchestration Designer. Orchestration Designer is a rich graphical tool for visually designing business processes. It generates XLANG/s files that have an .odx extension and contain additional visualization information in their headers and custom attribute information in their bodies.
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| XLANG/s can be viewed as a messaging language with some of the expression capabilities of C#. |
The primary functions of the orchestration engine are:
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Persistence
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Hosting the .NET components
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Transactions
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Large message support
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Runtime validation
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Load throttling
