The term Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is widely used in the context of implementing the messaging capabilities of a service oriented infrastructure. An ESB is one of many building blocks that make up a comprehensive service oriented infrastructure. The messaging capabilities required in a service oriented infrastructure extend the functions of traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) to include first class support for Web Service standards and integration with other service infrastructure components such as policy management, metadata registry, and operational and business monitoring frameworks. Given the heterogeneous nature of most enterprise infrastructures and the significant investments already made in EAI and MOM assets, it is also important that your ESB enhance your ability to leverage those existing assets in a service oriented world.
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Microsoft provides a comprehensive ESB offering through its Application Platform including Windows Server 2003, the .NET Framework 3.0, and BizTalk Server 2006. The Application Platform provides an infrastructure that enables the flexible and secure reuse of infrastructure and business services and the ability to orchestrate existing services into new end-to-end business processes. At the core of this solution is BizTalk Server 2006 which provides a basis for common ESB capabilities including:
The 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 ESB solutions on the Microsoft platform. It also provides capabilities that help developers to extend existing messaging and integration solutions. Some of the services and components include:
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