For long months, I have been talking about the ESB Guidance that Microsoft is about to release to the public as a solution on top of BizTalk 2006. Till now, the ESB Guidance was only available for Microsoft partners and on special cases, so it was really hard to imagine what is does.
So, now Microsoft released the ESB Guidance to CodePlex and you can start using it.
The Microsoft ESB Guidance provides architectural guidance, patterns, practices, and a set of BizTalk Server and .NET components to simplify the development of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) on the Microsoft platform and to allow Microsoft customers to extend their own messaging and integration solutions.
Go to http://www.codeplex.com/esb and start using it.
Microsoft wants your feedbacks for the final release scheduled for September 2007.