BizTalk Server 2009 books to look out for

I am building a BizTalk 2009 book library for my team at work and thought I’d share the list of books with some comments. They can all be pre-ordered from Amazon (with the exception of Pro Mapping in BizTalk 2009 and Pro RFID in BizTalk Server 2009 that are already shipping).

Must have books:

• SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 by Richard Seroter
• Very much anticipated by me and other BizTalk professionals out there. It will cover a lot of hot topics. You can read more about it on Richard’s blog
• Pro BizTalk 2009 by by George Dunphy, Harold Campos, Stephen Kaufman, Peter Kelcey, Sergei Moukhnitski, David Peterson
• Must have book that follows the very popular Pro BizTalk 2006 book. Due out on the second half of the year this book should cover in detail a lot of the new features introduced since BizTalk 2006.

Good to have books:

• Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 by Jim Dawson and John Wainwright
• This one has just arrived today on my desk – it is is a great book to have for mapping reference and to help crack some hard mapping nuts, especially if you are mapping difficult schemas like EDI. Unfortunately it does not cover the new unit testing features in BizTalk 2009 and some of the screenshots are from BizTalk 2006. But don’t be fooled – the book has great guidance, best practices, and examples of BizTalk mapping and there is no other book out there with so much info on the topic.
• Pro BAM in BizTalk Server 2009 by Geoff Snowman, Jeff Sanders
• Very promising book on BAM. Not only it will cover the basics but will give advanced insight into how to expose the data captured by BAM on different technologies, how to capture the data, and hands on examples.
• Pro RFID in BizTalk Server 2009 by Mark Beckner, Mark Simms, Ram Venkatesh
• Another good book that will cover BizTalk RFID in detail – a great starting point for anyone looking at implementing RFID solutions with BizTalk. One very interesting topic are the real world case studies.

–Thiago