BizTalk 2013 Synchronous scenario

Hi
Is there a sample of how to do a synchronous web service call using biztalk 2013 anywhere i can look at?
Basically i need to call biztalk from a .Net web application, biztalk passes this onto SAP and the response message needs to go back to the web application.
Thanks
Riaz

expose your schema as a service (this is what your .Net client will call) and create the associated receive port [the service endpoint]. Create a wcf SAP request-response port which will pass this request to SAP.
Bind this send port (through filter) to the receive location and apply the MAP to transform from your request schema to the SAP service schema.
If however you want to do additional processing which might not be possible through maps then convert this into an orchestration and expose the orchestration as a service.
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Edited by: Alan Cecchini on Aug 19, 2010 11:48 AM
Edited by: Alan Cecchini on Aug 19, 2010 11:50 AM
Edited by: Alan Cecchini on Aug 20, 2010 12:11 PM

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