Introduction

BizTalk Server has the ability to synchronously call a pipeline(either send or receive) from within an Orchestration. This article is intends to summerize the advantages and Disadvantages of calling Pipelines from an  Orchestration.

Advantages:
  • This enables orchestrations to leverage the message processing encapsulated within a pipeline (either send or receive) against a body of data without having to send that data through the messaging infrastructure.
  • You are developing an orchestration and need to use pipeline-processing stages within the workflow.

Disadvantages: