This site contains code and content related to the Managed Services Engine, a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft SQL Server.

Overview

The Managed Services Engine (MSE) is one approach to facilitating Enterprise SOA through service virtualization. Built upon the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and the Microsoft Server Platform, the MSE was developed by Microsoft Services as we helped customers address the challenges of SOA in the enterprise. The MSE fully enables service virtualization through a Service Repository, which helps organizations deploy services faster, coordinate change management, and maximize the reuse of various service elements. In doing so, the MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, routing, and runtime policy enforcement for Services.

Status & Roadmap

The December 2009 CTP Release was the final release of the MSE. There are variety of Microsoft products that can be leveraged to build loosely coupled applications and this article references many of the approaches, How to Integrate a BizTalk Server Application with Service Bus Queues and Topics.

Thanks for all your comments and suggestions over the past 5 releases of the MSE.

In closing, we want to direct you to section 3.(E) of the License Agreement regarding the support clause. As a CTP release we do not recommend this be used in production or provide support. If you wish to explore additional options for service virtualization, please contact your closest Microsoft Consulting Services office.