actually I need the pub/sub - don't really need a queue
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Browse All TopicsI'm looking for a robust messaging solution for a small enterprise.
I've looked at MSMQ, Nservicebus, SimpleServiceBus, ActiveMQ
I've waded through all of the MS documentation on MSMQ and I'm still left with a question - what are my options if I want to exchange messages between two offices? The two offices are connected, but I want each office to have an MSMQ "server" and to have the MSMQ server in one office forward messages to the other MSMQ server. Does adding NServiceBus or SimpleServiceBus (both use MSMQ as a transport) change anything?
So in essence I want to link 2 MSMQ servers and I don't want to use ActiveDirectory.
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Actually looked at Rhino - it's not really prod-ready. I also looked at Masstransit and Spread Messaging toolkit also.
I like NServiceBus and SimpleSerivceBus (except for the fast that they require .net 3.5 / MSVS 2008 which we are not using yet)
With NServiceBus and SimpleSerivceBus I don't really understand how I can get the multi-office functionality since the underlying transport (MSMQ) does not really support forwarding.
I have clients in two offices and I want one "bus" that connects all of the clients for pub/sub and possibly for async process-to-process send/receive.
Agree with your comment about queues, but since NServceBus is built on top of MSMQ, I believe I am subject to all of MSMQ's limitations and dependencies. For example, without ActiveDirectory MSMQ can have only "Private" queues.
nservicebus is not only built on top of MSMQ msmq is just 1 transport.
As an example there is also TCP/UDP transports.
What i am not understanding is this fixation upon queues ... I say Bus.Dispatch() ... It looks up in the subscriber directory what that means and does it. That may be a queue at site 2 ... or it could be a HTTP put to a server on my network.
Cheers,
Greg
So MSMQ is the transport for nservicebus - I think we agree on that.
nservicebus is not really "built on top" of msmq.
I believe that MSMQ is required to run nservicebus. If I'm correct, nservicebus's limitations are driven by MSMQ's limitations. If you're asserting that I can have nservicebus run in 2 offices and talk to each other without MSMQ talking to ActiveDirectory, then I'll be happy to invest some time in getting this to run.
I just don't fully understand the nature of nservicebus or how it can be configured to forward messages from one office to another.
In the end I went with ActiveMQ + NMS. Fairly easy to get it to work plus I like the power and flexibility of ActiveMQ plus it's basically an open system that will support any technology we might use down the line.
I was disappointed to find that NServiceBus had virtually no useful documentation. I don't feel like going through code to figure out how to make something work.
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by: gregoryyoungPosted on 2009-05-14 at 12:46:16ID: 24388895
do you only need a queue or do you need other things. from the sounds of it you can do what you want with only MSMQ
nservicebus and simpleservicebus build pub/subscribe architectures over MSMQ.
the answer to that question will take you most of the way in getting through this.
Cheers,
Greg