More on the Service Bus for Windows Server v1 beta

Neudesic blogs - Introducing Service Bus for Windows Server (Service Bus 1.0 Beta)

On July 16, Microsoft released the beta of Microsoft Service Bus 1.0 for Windows Server. This release has been tightly kept under wraps for several months and my team was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to evaluate the early bits and help shape this release.

With the Beta now live, I’d like to share a bit of our perspective on this release, why it is significant and provide some details based on our experience with the bits.
Before I do so, let me provide an overview of Azure Service Bus to put into context this important capability as it exists today and where it is going.

A Brief Introduction to Azure Service Bus

Windows Azure Service Bus enables customers to integrate applications leveraging messaging capabilities that until now were only available in enterprise grade on-premise middleware platforms like BizTalk, Tibco, Neuron, and IBM WebSphere.

Azure Service Bus provides foundational messaging capabilities like pub-sub over a highly elastic messaging fabric that in addition to providing scalability, significantly simplifies exposing, composing and consuming services regardless of where they reside.

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Introducing Service Bus for Windows Server

With the latest release of the Service Bus for Windows Server, Microsoft is extending the brokered messaging capabilities of Windows Azure Service Bus previously only available through Windows Azure hosting to a private, on-premise hosting environment. While this release is delivered under the name Microsoft Service Bus 1.0 Beta for Windows Server, you will find that there is strong parity with the existing Azure Service Bus capabilities in terms of the API and overall development experience.
In fact, you will find that the samples in the Service Bus for Windows Server SDK are very similar to the samples in the existing Azure Service Bus SDK. The capabilities in this release include:

• Secure messaging
• Multiple messaging protocols
• Reusable patterns
• Delivery assurance through reliable messaging
• Scalability
• Cross-domain/network connectivity with minimal network changes

Service Bus for Windows Server is built on the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 PU3 and requires Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows PowerShell 3.0. All these platforms must be running on a 64-bit operating system. The storage layer for the system (SQL) can be deployed on dedicated remote server or on one of the compute nodes or in Windows Azure SQL Database. The compute nodes used in this stack can be hosted either on-premises or on Windows Azure IAAS.

The following figure shows the platform stack for Service Bus for Windows Server:

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This is a great intro to the Service Bus for Windows Server. If you were looking for a bit more information about it, start with this post...

 

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