Chapter 11. New SOA Capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009: ESB Guidance 2.0

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

-William Drayton

The final new SOA-friendly feature in BizTalk Server 2009 is the ESB Guidance package. This accelerator provides a diverse set of services and patterns that build upon a BizTalk foundation while making BizTalk a more loosely-coupled and flexible messaging engine. In this chapter, we will investigate ESB Guidance and walk through numerous scenarios that flex the core components.

What is ESB Guidance?

The ESB Guidance solution package rose from a desire to create an even more loosely-coupled, generic messaging model and toolset in BizTalk than already existed. ESB Guidance is not a product per se, as it has no official ...

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