Microsoft is now offering an as-is tool for load generation on BizTalk.
Now we can detect those performance bottlenecks before Production :-)
I've added the link to my Biztalk Link Page
The tool supports intelligent mechanisms for generating messages and support the following transports out of the box:
- FILE Transport [Local and UNC Path. Can also be used for FTP & POP3]
- HTTP Transport [Asynchronous & Request-Response]
- SOAP Transport [Asynchronous & Request-Response] [Expects Headers & Envelopes as parameters]
- MSMQ Transport [Private: Transactional/Non-Transactional] [Large Messages: >4MB]
- MQ-Series Transport [Local/Remote In-Ordered/Non-InOrdered Persistent/Non-Persistent]
- WSE Transport [Asynchronous & Request-Response]
- WSS Transport
Furthermore, it supports commandline & gui, so it should be possible todo do this load test in an automated build :-)