Just a follw-up posting (and to show that I'm still around ) regarding a brief discussion from last week's Johannesburg BizTalk Server User Group meeting... Some may recall a question I put forward, after Ryan's interesting presentation on the BRE, regarding the immutability of messages in the message box when calling rules from inside an orchestration. The general consensus was that the BRE itself would not guard the message box's message since: The BRE can be used separately from...
One of the nice features of the BizTalk Server Business Rules Engine (BRE) is the capability to host the engine within your own applications (i.e. it is not exclusively tied to BizTalk Server). This allows you to use the rules engine and all of it's nice policy management and API's from any of your custom written applications. However, there are licensing cost which one must consider when designing and deploying such application. Should you currently be interested in alternatives, I've...