Using ESB Exception Management

Errors and exceptions can occur in a range of contexts and during a number of different processing stages in an ESB. This section provides information about handling exceptions and describes how you can publish details through the ESB Management Portal.

Overview

There are many ways to handle exceptions in a BizTalk Server solution, including using frameworks such as the Enterprise Library. However, when developing with ESB and BizTalk Server, you are working in a message-based environment. Everything in a BizTalk solution is message-oriented, and BizTalk developers think in a message-oriented way. Therefore, the ​Microsoft BizTalk ESB Toolkit implements a message-oriented approach to exception handling.

The ESB Exception Management Framework follows a design pattern that provides a flexible approach to exception monitoring and enables error responses to originate from outside of the solution—perhaps at business-unit level.

The following topics discuss the ESB Exception Management Framework in more detail:

• Design of the ESB Exception Management Framework

• The Components of the Exception Management Framework

• Using the Exception Management Framework

• Creating Custom Exception Handlers