Connecting Applications

Because applications communicate in many different ways, the BizTalk Server 2004 engine supports a variety of protocols and message formats. It is important to remember that the engine works only with XML documents internally. All messages are converted to XML documents when they are received. Similarly, if the recipient of a document requires a format other than XML, the engine converts the document into the appropriate format.

This section contains:

• Sending and Receiving Messages: Adapters
• Processing Messages: Pipelines
• Choosing Messages: Subscriptions