Route requests to webservice through BizTalk orchestration.

Question

I am going to consume a webservice. The requirements forces me to go through an orchestration that handles some logging etc before the request is made.

The best solution I can think of is to consume the web service and publish the orchestration as another webservice that can be called instead.

Is there a way to for example intercept the request to the web service and force an orchestration to start? What is the best way to solve this?

Answer 1

If you're going to use BizTalk, what you describe is how it would be done. Except, you can implement the main process as Messaging only. Here are some articles:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/richardbpi/archive/2006/11/10/using-only-biztalk-messaging-with-request-response-on-both-ends.aspx

http://ershadnozari.blogspot.com/2010/10/request-response-to-solicit-response.html

Once that is working, you can then have an Orchestration subscribing to the initial Request message on the side where it can do it's work.