Add Custom Behaviors to External Service Endpoint ?

Question

I have a scenario where i need to connect to WCF service with a client side custom behavior. I tried adding custom behavior assembly to EAI project and added config sections in OneWayExternalServiceEndpointReference.config. It doesn't seem to be working and unable to debug.

Does this version of CTP support adding custom behavior to external service endpoint ?

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Answer 1

We don't support of adding any user/custom behavior to be added. Only OOB( shipped as part of .Net) are supported in this CTP.

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Bhuvanesh N Jain [MSFT}

Answer 2

Can you also give us some details on what your custom behavior does? We'd like to hear of requirements where users are today resorting to custom components, so that we can evaluate if those features are something which we should be adding out-of-the-box.

Answer 3

LOB systems can have a different authentication requirements. Say for ex: MS CRM 2011, SalesForce.com systems expect a "token\sessionid" in the soap headers of operation request.  For this scenario, I have implemented custom behavior in WCF that will include necessary headers and used it in BizTalk WCF-Custom port. This way I din't have to develop the adapter rather use power of WCF extensions.

Bridges could be powerfull if there is a support for enough customization, debugging capability, error handling, Message retry.. 

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Answer 4

If you need to slap on SOAP / HTTP headers where the values are static or are flown from the client, you should be able to do that - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689776.aspx.