Chapter 12. ESB with BizTalk Server

In This Chapter

• What Is an ESB?

• Introducing the Enterprise Service Bus

• What Are the Components of an ESB?

• Introducing the ESB Toolkit

• REST and BizTalk ESB

• Organizational Considerations

For BizTalk developers and architects, this chapter explains what an enterprise service bus (ESB) is, why it matters, and how, at a high level, it is implemented using BizTalk Server as the core messaging infrastructure. This chapter also explains the key role that ESBs have as part of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

What Is an ESB?

Although definitions can vary, for the purpose of this book we will settle on a definition that an enterprise service bus is a design pattern that builds on the principles of SOA ...

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