I’m responsible for the Windows Azure ServiceBus support in NServicebus. And in my opinion this new Windows Server Servicebus provides the exact same capabilities as the Azure ServiceBus. So in my opinion it will be a good match with NServiceBus instead of a competitor (just as the Windows Azure ServiceBus is) and could be used … Read more
Years ago, I asked myself the same question. I was looking at NServiceBus to work with a different message queue, but the question was the same. I decided not to use NServiceBus. 6 Month later, I realized I had re-built half of what NServiceBus did… only much more poorly. The equivalent question of why would … Read more
If I had to summarize, here’s what I’d say: If you need commercial support, go for NServiceBus. If you’re comfortable with using forums as a means of support, MassTransit is a great option. The developers have been very responsive to our issues so far. If you choose MassTransit, now you will choose between MSMQ and … Read more
You can think of a service bus as the Ethernet of SOA. First and foremost, it introduces a language of identifying things, like an IP address in Ethernet. This name isn’t something inherently physical. Next, you have something physical involved on each node, like a queue in the case of a bus for supporting semi-connected … Read more
I’d recommend staying away from hand-rolled solutions as there is a bunch of somewhat difficult stuff that needs to be gotten just right – like how transactions are handled, how exceptions cause rollbacks, how to stop rolling back endlessly (poison messages), how to integrate with long-running workflows so that the state management boundaries line up, … Read more