Adding SAP XI/PI to portfolio

because everyone has to look at other software giants, other languages and systems i learn the SAP PI (XI) system and configuration features for my own knowledge.

if you are interested how SAP's solution for EAI/SOA and BPM looks like... here is a good demo video.

I played with SAP XI/PI for some testing scenarios... but i do not like the complicated configuration features and the terrible UI.... the mapping feature and UI of biztalk is unbeaten... :-)

Where are all the BizTalk shapes?

...in Microsoft.BizTalk.ObjectModel.dll...

Creating Simple BAM

for legal reasons i had time for the last 2 month to develop my own BAM tool to simple create a tracking monitor...
legal reasons? i will explain to you in may... :-)

simple to install... simple to use... not a large solution with wss and all the other stuff from biztalk 2006 r2.... *g

i developed a custom biztalk activity to write tracking information in my own tracking db... now i setup a small web site fitted with customer needs... small.... simple and a fast overview...
i will write some snippets and show some screenshots soon.... stay tuned... :-)

Now using NHibernate

some time ago and for some reasons i used stored procedures and the ADO.NET to communicate with the database. this is very fast and performant but in some cases like filling SAP properties too much coding work because of the multiplicity of properties. for this case i use NHibernate now and it works fine and simple. Give it a try...