Oslo, SOA BizTalk Express and crossing the chasm (part 3).
With PDC around the corner and the buzz around Oslo beginning to form into some louder noise, it occurs to me that we (developers and architects) should be helping shape the discussion and hopefully make an impression.
If I could hand the Oslo team my single most precious wish it would read like this:
“Can I please have a framework that allows me to build applications that support durable messaging using the publish & subscribe pattern and communicate over a bus!”
That’s the main thing that I crave. In the meantime we can use nServiceBus, SimpleServiceBus, Mass Transit and a few others, including rolling our own with WCF but lets not forget that WCF does not give us this out of the box, in fact far from it.
To date we have heard about how integral Windows Communication Foundation and
Workflow Foundation are to Oslo and that XAML activation looms large along with ‘the Repository‘ which might be storage for workflow and service discovery. It would seem that the idea of the ‘Repository’ is about assisting with architecture, but I’m not yet clear about how deep the Repository lives in the API and whether I can leverage it to promote or provide durable pub /sub messaging with a bus architectural pattern. Let’s wait and see what emacs.net, the repository and the so-called new process server bring to the table.
