Contents of the Microsoft ESB Guidance

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Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns and practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of large and small-scale Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solutions on the Microsoft platform. It also provides capabilities that help developers to extend existing messaging and integration solutions.

The ESB Guidance contains the following:

  • ESB Web Services. These provide key Microsoft ESB Guidance capabilities.
  • ESB Management Portal. This provides features such as exception and fault tracking, message resubmission, alerts and notifications, UDDI integration, reporting and analytics, and configuration capabilities.
  • ESB Pipeline Interop Components. These are for use in BizTalk pipelines.
  • Exception Management Framework. This can capture exceptions from both BizTalk Messaging and Orchestration subsystems and generate fault messages.
  • ESB Resolver and Adapter Provider Framework. This implements a pluggable and configurable architecture for dynamically resolving endpoints and transform requirements, and for routing messages.
  • Itinerary Processing. This mechanism provides a lightweight capability for dynamically describing, submitting, and executing multiple service invocations or routing/transformation requests.
  • ESB Sample Applications. These demonstrate usage of the Microsoft ESB Guidance, demonstrating how you can take advantage of the features it provides in your own SOA and ESB applications.