Pros/Cons of using BizTalk instead of NServiceBus or MassTransit

Question

I am curious if it even makes consider BizTalk for the implementation of a pub/sub messaging architecture (basically what you can do with NServiceBus or MassTransit is all I rea

Answer 1

I'm with Andreas on this - BizTalk is generally more suited to 'value add' integration and business process management, rather than ESB type activity. BizTalk is good at:

• BPEL
• Long Running / Compensated Transactions
• EAI
• Brokering / Mapping
• Protocol changes (MQ to WCF, Flat File to SAP etc)
• EDI, RFID

However, efforts have been made to use BizTalk as a service bus, notably the ESB Toolkit