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I have been working lately with a big group of fellow developers here in SilverKey on the architecture and design of a relatively big project that required much services and messaging work. We thought that we should implement our public services the REST way using WCF for .NET 3.5, with so many customizations, and that we’ll use a library called nServiceBus for internal messaging. Mohammed Nour wrote a little about thinking in REST.

nServiceBus is a framework for handling publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) model of messaging. It provides reliable messaging via the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) pattern, and uses MSMQ as the physical bus.

It’s an interesting piece of work to look at actually; of course free, open source. I have been involved in evaluating it for our project, and wrote a document about it as part of my work, so that it’s easier for the rest of the team to use it later. As the documentation for nServiceBus is very limited at this stage of the project, I and my boss Dody decided to share the document with the community.

This is the email I sent to SilverKey Tech. Egypt dev team yesterday, sharing here as usual.

• Article: Info Q: Don’t Let Consumers and Service Providers Communicate Directly
  • Just because someone is developing with Web Services does not mean they are following SOA principles
  • Just because you’re using HTTP and HTML doesn’t mean you get into that camp and vice versa
• Weblog: “Making IT work” – Musings of a Holistict Architect
• Weblog: Udi Dahan
  • Article: Autonomous Services and Enterprise Entity Aggregation
  • Discussion: Does REST simplify communication more than SOA?
  • Article: Asynchronous, High-Performance Login for Web Farms
  • Article: How to create fully encapsulated Domain Models
• E-book: Info Q: Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies
• MSDN Magazine
  • Article: Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
  • Article: Workflow Services
• MSDN Code Gallery
  • Sample Code: SOA’izing MSMQ with WCF (and Why It’s Worth It)
  • Sample Code: Perseus: Entity Framework EntityBag (Perseus is a small project designed to explore ways for exchanging graphs of Entity Framework entities over WCF web services)
• Weblog: Wide Awake Developers / Architecture

Bonuses (AKA, unrelated links – definition)

Today was .NETwork usergroup second gathering. The usergroup is the first and only large/effective "offline" usergroup in Egypt (although there’re many others in INETA). They had a great success in their first gathering when they brought Steven Forte to talk about SQL Server 2008 new features for developers and ASP.NET MVC design pattern. I had a detailed post about it in my GWB blog at that time. Check it out for details.

Background: First To Second Gathering (Warning: Boring Part!!)

The .NETwork gatherings so far are more like small independent events. We -SilverKey Tech- were the first to start such events with our full day event, DemoDay (See GWB posts on DemoDay I, DemoDay II ), and later ITWorx had their CuttingEdge Club (See GWB post); which were both great corporation contribution to the developer community (and I believe we need more guys to start doing similar events), but, didn’t have much of "offline user group" nature between each round of either events (although almost each of us is friend to the other or at least friend of a friend!!). While .NETwork preferred the same "event" model, they had online and offline communication between the users of the usergroup (although mainly between students and organizers so far, but it’s a step anyway). It’s very interesting what Mahmoud Ghozz (one of the organizers) told me that the 2nd gathering session topics/speakers setup was done mainly through just phone calls!