Architecting Service Broker Applications

re: Architecting Service Broker Applications

tomasr — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 01:52:35 GMT

Roger,

Good stuff, and very interesting to those of us who haven't had a chance to play with SSB much. Thanks for it.

One suggestion, however: You give a good overview of the features in SSB and how they might be leveraged. It might be nice to have that complemented with information about what other products/technologies out there that might "compete" (or complement) with the facilities that SSB provides and how to choose from them.

For example, you mention Queueing as a pretty big feature in SSB and a way to add asynchronous work to your application. Great. However, certainly MSMQ and BizTalk could be leveraged to provide queuing as well in many circumstances. What considerations would the architect give to see what the right technology here would be?

I think this might easily be the place were architects get a little bit worried, as the Microsoft platform stack is gaining a lot of overlapping functionality over the product set (i.e. WinFX, BizTalk, SQL Server, and so on), and it's getting more complex to decide on what the right feature from each product is.

Author's response:

This comment about the MSMQ positioning is rather puzzling because one of the main point of the article was to point out when Service Broker was appropriate and when it wasn't. I also included a link to another post that deals exclusively with Service Broker positioning. Either I totally failed to communicate one of my main points or there's something missing that I'm not aware of. If there's something specific missing from the guidance let me know and I'll try to include it.

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