RE: 10000 msgs limit per session

["Cliff Jansen (Interop Systems Inc)" <v-...@microsoft.com>]

Robert Greig wrote:
> Having said that, I did take a look at this question ("could WCF be a
> generic messaging API") for other reasons related to my day job a
> while ago and concluded that it could be. You would simply have to
> define some very simple contracts (e.g. with a single method
> "StandardOneWay(Message m) and you would perhaps also need some
> AMQP-specific behaviours (a WCF term) to give complete flexibility.
> 
> Cliff, am I right in assuming that is where you were going with the WCF client?

That is a very valid way to look at it, but not because it is a stated
objective of the work I have been doing, but merely because that is
how WCF tends to be used in a messaging context (i.e. for MSMQ and
WebSphere MQ based transports) if you are using the service model.
You can also just use one-way channels to send and receive messages
programmatically.

WCF isn't the solution to every conceivable messaging problem, but it
is a very important framework for .NET developers.  It can handle many
common messaging scenarios and the code under qpid/wcf tries to
provide the AMQP based transport that is expected in these cases.


Robert Godfrey wrote:
> I'm very supportive of the efforts to make available a WCF client for
> Qpid (and more generally, I hope, for AMQP) however I think we need to
> look a little more carefully about how we are going to go forward
> supporting .net application programmers and - something that tends to
> get a little lost - how we enable .net programmers to interoperate
> seamlessly with clients using other APIs (for example JMS <->
> .net/WCF)..

Unless there is an issue with interoperability in the case of "JMS <->
C++ client", I think that "JMS <-> .net/WCF" interoperability should
occur as a matter of course when the AmqpType sub-classes are fleshed out.

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Greig [mailto:robert.j.greig@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 9:44 AM
To: dev@qpid.apache.org
Subject: Re: 10000 msgs limit per session

2009/11/30 Rafael Schloming <ra...@redhat.com>:

> I'm not sure the stuff Cliff is working on (useful as it is) is actually a
> substitute for the old .NET client(s). I took a brief look at the WCF stuff
> as I was curious about it, and from what I could glean from the readme and
> the examples, it seemed more like an RPC mechanism than a messaging API. It
> also looked like the implementation was windows only.

RPC...you mean "services" :-)

It is certainly true that WCF is geared around building services and
clients for those services, with abstractions to allow a great deal of
flexibility (e.g. transport). For example, IBM have produced a WCF
channel for MQ and it is heavily geared towards SOAP over JMS.

Having said that, I did take a look at this question ("could WCF be a
generic messaging API") for other reasons related to my day job a
while ago and concluded that it could be. You would simply have to
define some very simple contracts (e.g. with a single method
"StandardOneWay(Message m) and you would perhaps also need some
AMQP-specific behaviours (a WCF term) to give complete flexibility.

Cliff, am I right in assuming that is where you were going with the WCF client?

> I do think that nothing we have under dotnet or wcf currently qualifies as
> production ready or supported relative to our other clients, and we should
> make this clear somehow, but I don't think it would be correct to deprecate
> the old one in favor of the new one unless I'm missing something about the
> new one.

I think our existing .NET client is very poor and gives potential .NET
users a very bad impression of the project. Do we know if anyone is
actually using it successfully and is happy with it?

RG

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