Why SOA'ize MSMQ with WCF

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) is an incredibly robust, time-tested messaging server that fulfills a critical role in any communications platform. What it doesn’t do however, is play well in a service oriented world. MSMQ applications and their developers must be fully aware of the queue’s they’re communicating with and hand-craft messages to be sent on the wire. In a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) world, we don’t think in terms of message in queues, we think in terms of business operations allowing developers to focus on what’s most important…business operations. Centering application development around these operations enables us to be flexible with not only with our implementations, but also our communication partners. In addition, the extensibility mechanisms provided when we integrate MSMQ with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) are extremely powerful and enable MSMQ developers to do things they never could before.