I’m happy to announce the start of the public beta for WSMQ 1.0 (SQL Server Version).  This downloadable beta is available to all registered users of the WSMQ site.  For more information, register at http://www.wsmq.com.  

About WSMQ

Web Service Message Queue (WSMQ) is a simple message queuing alternative for enabling reliable, professional-grade applications. Compared with other popular message queues, WSMQ is easier to deploy, write code for, manage and scale.

New Service Features:

All peek and receive methods have been expanded with versions that return a QueuedMessage object that contains the QueuedMessageId.  This allows for operations that first peek messages on the queue and then receive by message ID, allowing for greater reliability within a queue operation.

All methods have been changed to allow a QueueRequestId that can be set to guarantee that multiple requests with the same QueueId do not have any cumulative effect on the state of a queue.

Back-end Queue Storage is now in SQL Server, resulting in large performance gain over the file system version.  We are launching the File System Version beta in the next week.

New Queue Admin Web Application Features:

Added the ability to search messages on a Queue or Journal, or within an Archive or Dead Letter Queue.

Added user Management Features

Added an Admin Queue, and administration level access to all end-user queues.

Numerous UI enhancements.

Pricing, Restrictions and Future Plans

The beta version will function until August 31st, 2005, by which time we will have a Beta 2, or release version.  We are currently exploring pricing options, which we will announce before the expiration of this beta. The release version will be available with source code included.  If you have questions, concerns, or suggestions about pricing, please contact me off-line at brendan.tompkins@gmail.com for more information.

WSMQ Hosted Version

We are continuing to evaluate the viability of the hosted version of WSMQ.  As a beta participant, you are granted access to the hosted version of the queue.

Thanks! 

-Brendan