Have you ever considered turning BizTalk Server 2006 into an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), well a couple of folks have. They have actually pulled together a guidance framework with just that goal in mind. At http://www.codeplex.com/esb you can read about my recent TLC presentation at TechEd directed at targeting the ESB with BizTalk 2006. Some of the more interesting aspects of the ESB were its ability to select destination web services by looking them up from a UDDI repository. Two main things the presenter was really jazzed about and that are up on CodePlex, was using BizTalk to handle enterprise exception handling, something we had actually just ripped out of our implementation and BAM, also a core component of BizTalk intentionally turned off.
When I find a presenter at TechEd advocates for a position that you have rejected, I begin to question the differences between the presenters experience and my own. After a brief discussion with him I determined that indeed we had a different set of experiences. We are primarily using BTS as an integration platform and he was implementing an ESB. We do not have key business processes tied to the completion job with people watching the completion of the task. They do.
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We could get to that point though. ESB seems like something that requires a pretty mature organization and, like UDDI, it seems like most people fail to really leverage the value. I think it doesn't really make sense until you have a SOA environment that needs cleaning up or is headed into a messy world.
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