Hi Robert, > I am potentially going to be a user of the .NET client in future due > to the nature of the projects I am now working on and one question I > have is this: should we be targetting WCF? Would a WCF implementation > not speed our adoption in the .NET world? > > In the Java world we would have very few users if we did not support > JMS. Is WCF not as important in .NET?
It is pretty important, I agree. In fact, writing a WCF transport channel as well as a BizTalk Server adapter was the reason I got interested in Qpid originally. It's just that the client was not quite in a state stable enough (imho) to use as the basis for them. So what I'm trying to do is improve the Qpid .NET client to a point where I could use it as the basis for the WCF and BizTalk adapters, and I think we've made some good progress here. Obviously, both would expose a fairly small subset of the entire AMQP functionality, as they are more concerned with simply sending and receiving messages than the rest, but it would still be a very compelling use case, I think. I've been a bit busy lately so I haven't had the chance to work too much on this, though. Tomas Restrepo http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/
