Andrés Del Río Benito - Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.1

Andrs Del Ro Benito has been working with BizTalk since 2004, and all the way through all its versions until BizTalk 2010. Over the years, he has played the role of developer, consultant, architect, and development lead in different projects, and has also been the official BizTalk trainer for different teams across Accenture CIO and Avanade Spain.

Apart from working with BizTalk, he has spent many years in the Avanade and Accenture CIO Enterprise Architecture teams involved in different initiatives not only around BizTalk but also many other technologies along the Microsoft Stack. This was until he left Spain (and so Avanade/Accenture) with his wife to find new challenges in London; here, after spending some time as a BizTalk contractor for Microsoft UK, he currently works for BBC Worldwide as a Solutions Architect.

Howard S. Edidin is an independent BizTalk architect/consultant specializing in providing guidance and training for companies implementing BizTalk. He was first exposed to BizTalk about the time when "Soap on a Rope" was introduced by Microsoft. He didn't get a chance to use it, until BizTalk 2002 came along.

Most of Howard's BizTalk career has been in contract work, which has allowed him to utilize almost all of BizTalk's capabilities. Last year Howard established his own consulting company, the Edidin Group Inc. in order to expand the services he provides.

Howard has been very active in the BizTalk community. He has contributed several articles to the TechNet Wiki, provided answers to questions on the LinkedIn BizTalk Groups, contributes to several BizTalk Administration blogs, and maintains his own blog.

In addition to co-authoring this book, Howard was a co-author of Microsoft BizTalk 2010 Administration Essentials along with Steef-Jan Wiggers , Andrs Del Ro Benito , and Tord Glad Nordahl , Packt Publishing and a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing on SOA Made Simple by Lonneke Dikmans and Ronald van Luttikhuizen.

Howard is married and resides in Libertyville, IL.

He was certified as an MCP in 1998, and is currently certified MCTS in BizTalk 2010.

I would like to thank my wife, Sharon, for allowing me the time to write this book. I especially would like to thank my good friend and co-author, Andres Del Rio, for his encouragement and collaboration.

Ren Brauwers started his IT career as a web developer/designer and was primarily engaged with building websites using classic ASP. Soon, his focus got more drawn towards developing client/server applications using the 3GL language Centura/Gupta Team Developer. Around the end of 2002, he got in touch with the EAI/B2B/B2C/BPM world, starting off with WebMethods and did this for the next three years with an occasional side step to .NET development. This occasional side step got him in touch with BizTalk Server in 2005.

Currently, he is employed as a senior Microsoft Integration consultant for Motion10 ().

Special thanks go out to everyone actively participating in the Microsoft Integration space, my colleagues at Motion10, family, and of course my soon to be wife Miranda; words simply can't express my love for you.

Abdul Rafay has been working on integration with BizTalk and other Microsoft technologies for more than six years. He works as an Integrator in a Bank in Qatar where he is involved in architecture, design, development, and testing of integration solutions built on Microsoft platforms, which mainly includes BizTalk, WCF, and Windows Server AppFabric. You can visit his blog: http://abdulrafaysbiztalk.wordpress.com.

Abdul has a vast experience of integration projects in the banking domain, and has been involved in projects integrating banking applications with core banking systems and B2B partners. He has previously worked with the largest implementations of BizTalk in regions like United Bank Ltd. Pakistan, and SADAD in KSA.

Abdul is a three times Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in BizTalk and likes to share his knowledge and technical expertise on his blog, MSDN, and other forums.

Other than Integration projects and BizTalk, Abdul has previously worked as a web developer on technologies such as ASP, ASP.NET, SharePoint, and open source web applications.

I would like to thank my fantastic wife, Hira, for making this project and my life successful. Thanks for your understanding, patience, and support which lead me to success. I would like to thank the Almighty God for giving me all what I have. I would like to thank all my friends who were there when I needed them and specially my in-laws. Thanks to all those who have contributed to my success and were part of my life.

Jean-Paul Smit grew up in a small town in the Netherlands, working in his parent's greenhouse. However, information technology caught him early and after graduation, he started to work in the greenhouse automation business in 1996. A few years later, he was involved in the first real Internet project at the Aalsmeer flower auction. From there Internet was the way to go and he switched jobs to work for the Dutch company Macaw, to work with Microsoft only technology. In 2004 he was introduced to Microsoft BizTalk Server, and from that moment he spent most of his time on application integration using this platform. After a couple of interesting projects he decided it was time for the next step, go freelance. Since 2008, he is working under his company name Didago IT Consultancy to help customers solve application integration challenges, not only using BizTalk server but also other technologies on the Microsoft integration stack such as WCF and SSIS. Among his customers are companies like Asics, KPN, and AkzoNobel.