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MassTransit 0.3 Released

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re: MassTransit 0.2 Now Available

Chris Patterson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:16:33 GMT

You can find some introductory documents on the web site at masstransit.googlecode.com

re: MassTransit 0.2 Now Available

GansoDeSoya — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:32:42 GMT

Hi, is mass transit a tuxedo alternative but only for .net ? (I'm a bit of a newbie), where can i found documentation?

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re: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1

Chris Patterson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:35:18 GMT

I got around that by changing to the high visibility cursor set in 2003.

re: Enterprise Service Bus using MSMQ in .NET

Keith Smith — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:40:34 GMT

Hi Joe,

While searching for guidance on implementing an Enterprise Service Bus in .NET, I stumbled onto your website. Is there any topic that you guys miss? Guess not!

Anyway, I've become interested in ESB because it is useful in implementing an SOA architecture. Over the past year I've created multiple services which are hosted as windows services communicating with clients using .NET Remoting. I also had to create service installers to install these services. This seems very inefficient. Why not just have a single service host that I can publish services to and that clients can subscribe to? Isn't this what Java Application Servers do? Why not have a centralized service host in .NET?

Also, if I am going to invest time creating a service host (or rather a service hosting framework that will survive platform and techology changes), why not use a framework like WCF that provides a standards based solution which enables integration across open standards so that clients written in other programming languages can consume the service I create? Further, why not decouple my .NET clients from the services using a messaging architecture that supports a publish-subscribe model which an ESB would provides?

WCF does require direct communication between the client and the service which is a form of coupling. The ESB breaks this coupling, or rather, replaces it with a different one that couples all clients to the ESB which then dispatches the messages sent by clients to the appropriate service. The model becomes a bus architecture instead of a peer-to-peer architecture.

Is all of this necessary? In my opinion, if your goal is simply to centeralize your services to ease maintenance and deployment then this can be done using WCF without using an ESB. Using an ESB makes your architecture more complex and forces you to confront issues that BizTalk (Microsoft's ESB) developers have to deal with. However, if you have many departments each publishing services which work together like a federation of services, then decoupling these services from each other using an ESB could be worth doing. However, this would make it necessary to add other services such as a Service Discovery service to your architecture, further complicating matters. For example, when implementing a messaging system at Countrywide we had to develop many infrastructure services for message tracking, message correlation (matching sent and recieved messages), service registration and discovery, message logging, etc... Implementing these services and there associated UI's was a very complex undertaking.

I guess, my opinion on using an ESB are mixed since it introduces unncessary complexity for most projects but has some nice advantages for an environment sprawling with many service publishers and just as many, if not more, consumers.

Alright, what am I doing? I guess I just became a blogger.

M2 Technology

Keith Smith

re: VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1

Sergio Pereira — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:55:52 GMT

There are some bugs when using VS. The one that got me the most was not being able to use black background in the text editor because the cursor will remain black and become invisible.

(communities.vmware.com/.../702788)

re: Open Spaces In Practice

Colin Jack — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:19:16 GMT

Good idea, be interested to here how it progresses.

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