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Announcing: WSMQ and XMLQ

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I've created two GotDotNet workspaces WSMQ, and XMLQ.

Web Service Message Queue (WSMQ)

WSMQ is a simple message queuing application that supports queuing messages via a loosely coupled web service. It's underlying implementation uses something called XMLQ, which I've set up as a separate Workspace, since it can be used directly from within an application, such as a Windows service, Win forms or Web Forms app...

XML Message Queue (XMLQ)

XMLQ is a simple message queue that lets you queue messages, which are serialized to disk using XML. XMLQ currently supports the following features: Public Queues, Dynamic Queue Creation, Dead-Letter and Journal Queues.

There's a lot of work to be done on both projects, including: Support for transactions, binary serialized messages, private queues, but basic public queues seem to be working pretty well.

All are welcome, just send me a request!

-Brendan

Published Aug 12 2004, 08:36 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: WSMQ

Comments

Dave Donaldson said:

Sounds cool. I might be interested in taking part.

# August 12, 2004 4:16 PM

Josh Pollard said:

That is a very cool idea! I would love to learn more about this, and possibly even help out!

# August 13, 2004 7:19 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Josh... Send me your email, and I'll get you setup.. Love to have your help.
B

# August 16, 2004 6:05 AM

Jules said:

This is very interesting. I would hope that the main WS players take notice.

This is what is lacking in what I have read in SOA so far. If SOA is supposed to support aysnchronous message based transfers, my next question is where are he message queues, and how do I control their message size and other characteritstics (persistency, transactions etc.)

Do you know of any emerging WS standards on Message queing.

# September 22, 2004 12:19 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Jules,

I know there's a whole "Reliable Messaging" team working on Indigo... I'd imagine there's many many things in the works relating to this. I'm not trying to solve world hunger with this app, I just needed a quick and dirty, simple message queue that I can access via a web service. So, I wrote one. I'm using it in a prod environment, and it's working ok.. There are some issues to work out for sure, but It's working better for me than MSMQ was.

# September 22, 2004 2:28 AM

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About Brendan Tompkins

Brendan has been programming with .NET since the first public beta and is owner and operator of Port Technology Services, a consultancy company providing .NET application development services to the Maritime industry. In July, 2007, he was awarded the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET. He's also a proud co-founder of failed .COM startup Intrinsigo, and has had a hand in the failure of numerous other businesses. He currently runs CodeBetter.Com and Devlicio.us, and lives in Norfolk, Virgina with his wife Tiara and son Ian.