| RESTful enhancements · Simplifying the building of REST Singleton & Collection Services, ATOM Feed and Publishing Protocol Services, and HTTP Plain XML Services using WCF · WCF REST Starter Kit to be released on Codeplex to get early feedback Messaging enhancements · Transports - UDP, MQ, Local in-process · Protocols - SOAP over UDP, WS-Discovery, WS-BusinessActivity, WS-I BP 1.2 · Duplex durable messaging Correlation enhancements · Content and context driven, One-way support Declarative Workflow Services · Seamless integration between WF and WCF and unified XAML model · Build entire application in XAML, from presentation to data to services to workflow | Significant improvements in performance and scalability · Ten-fold improvement in performance New workflow flow-control models and pre-built activities · Flowcharts, rules · Expanded built-in activities – PowerShell, database, messaging, etc. Enhancements in workflow modeling · Persistence control, transaction flow, compensation support, data binding and scoping · Rules composable and seamlessly integrated with workflow engine Updated visual designer · Easier to use by end-users · Easier to rehost by ISVs · Ability to debug XAML | Provide standard host for WF and WCF applications Pre-built developer services · Message-based correlation · Message forwarding service · Content-based message routing · Compensation service for long-running transactions Greater scalability and easier manageability · Enable scale-out of stateful workflow applications · Persisting and rehydrating state for high scalability · Enhanced management and monitoring functions · Tracking store for workflow events Supports “Oslo” modeling platform |
