ESB Guidance Community
In October of 2006, Microsoft announced the preview of the Microsoft ESB Guidance at Microsoft SOA Conference in Redmond. This consisted of the following which enabled Microsoft partners and customers to build large and small-scale ESB solutions:
Sample code built on BizTalk Server 2006
Architectural guidance, patterns and practices
Reusable BizTalk Server ESB and .NET components:
Dynamic Transformation Service
Dynamic End Point/Configuration Service
Itinerary based Routing & Service Invocation
ESB Portal
Exception Management framework
Namespace Resolution Service
JMS (Java Message Service) pipeline component (IBM JMS over WMQ)
Since that time we’ve achieved significant momentum:
Several hundred requests for the ESB Guidance
Several dozen customers incorporating the guidance into their projects
Dedicated Microsoft ESB web site: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/solutions/soa/esb.mspx
Dedicated Partner site for delivering the ESB Guidance: http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/solutions/soa/esbpartners.mspx
Press on the ESB Guidance from the SOA conference
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25511
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=193104205
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/10/04/HNmsesbsoa_1.html
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/100406-microsoft-offers-esb-guidelines-for.html
Due to the overwhelming demand and popularity of the ESB Guidance, Microsoft has released a new June Community Release build of the ESB Guidance on the new ESB Guidance community site, where all future iterations will be released here until our final release in October later this year.
Although this June Community Release focused on bug fixes and refactoring the ESB Guidance for BizTalk 2006 R2, future releases will incorporate many new and augmented features such as:
UDDI publishing and richer resolution options
WS-MetadataExchange
Enhanced ESB Portal and Exception Mediation
Request-Response support for on and off ramps
WCF Adapter integration
New Samples and Guidance
Third party SOA Management and Governance integration:
Amberpoint Integration
SOA Software Integration
