Azure Thoughts, EAI Challenges

In previous post I described a way to consume a public Rest API using the BizTalk WCF-WebHttp adapter in combination with JSON-decoder, which is a new component with the BizTalk Server 2013 R2 edition. Now I like to mix things up a bit and consume a different API that is public. That is you can use this API from Last.fm . This is an online music discovery service that gives you personalised recommendations based on the music you listen to. To use the API of this service you need to registering yourself first. Because when you call of one of the methods of the API you need to stick in an api_key as one of the parameters of your request. This is not uncommon as various cloud API’s have this kind of mechanism. Scenario I have the following scenario, where I have built a client application ( still one of those old fashioned guys that use window forms ). The client application have the following functionality: Get information of an artist. Get the top albums from the artist. Infor...

The BizTalk Service in Windows Azure can be managed through a REST API. The API provides programmatic access to much of the functionality available through the Management Portal. With the REST API for managing BizTalk Services you can perform the following operations: Register BizTalk Service Create or Update a BizTalk Service Get Cloud Service Get Cloud Services Get BizTalk Service Properties Suspend BizTalk Service Resume BizTalk Service Restart BizTalk Service Poll on an Async Operation on BizTalk Service Sync Access Control Keys Delete BizTalk Service Backup BizTalk Service Restore Azure BizTalk Service from Backup In this post I like to show how you can leverage the REST API to manage BizTalk Service by means of a windows form application. Security To send request messages through the operations of the API you will need to have authentication in place. The REST API like the Windows Azure Service Management API uses mutual authentication of manageme...