Comments on: SimpleServiceBus on CodePlex (a fork of nServiceBus)

By: nstults

nstults — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:17:31 +0000

Dan, I'm glad you like it. However, I would be careful about skipping over a careful review of NServiceBus because of my descriptions here – this post is quite old, and NServiceBus is now maintained by a team, evolves rapidly, and has a very active community. Many of the shortcomings in this post have been overcome in recent versions of NSB. I'm not steering you away from SSB, I'm just cautioning that NSB also deserves your time in a thorough evaluation, because the very active development team and thriving community are huge assets that SSB simply does not possess.

By: nstults

nstults — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0000

By: danvanderboom

danvanderboom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:23:48 +0000

Great work, Nathan. I'm glad I found SimpleServiceBus before diving too deeply into nServiceBus. I want the fastest path to swapping out MSMQ for Windows Azure Queue Storage for cloud compute components, and SimpleServiceBus sounds easier to customize in this way. You've made a lot of design choices I would have made, so it's nice to know our styles are similar. I especially like the replaceable subsystems, message pipeline pattern, polymorphic message handling, lack of third-party dependencies, and I agree that requiring a reference to a service bus assembly in a message contracts assembly is silly.

By: nstults

nstults — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:11:25 +0000

I keep a loose eye on NSB to see if parts of what I've done can be reused as NSB components, but in reality while this project started out life as a fork, it really ended up being a nearly total rewrite. I'm not sure there is any nServiceBus code left, although the overall architecture remains vaguely the same, so a “merge” is certainly no longer possible. Even if it were it is extraordinarily unlikely Udi would accept my changes, our styles are just too different.

By: Colin Jack

Colin Jack — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:30:51 +0000

Have you thought about merging your changes in with what Udi has done now 1.9 is out the door?

By: NServiceBus 1.9

NServiceBus 1.9 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:13:57 +0000

[...] difference is the number of assemblies that come with nServiceBus. Nathan Stults had this to say about version [...]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:13:32 +0000

Once the project has stabilized then I think that is a great idea.

By: george

george — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:12:28 +0000

Good work. Would it be possible to present the set up of this project in a WebCast as for new SOA developers, this would be a great guid into getting it to work. Thanks.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:12:31 +0000

I’m glad you like it, thanks for the compliment. It’s still very much a work in progress, so please don’t be shy with any feedback, suggestions, requests etc. as you pick through it.

By: Mark Bjerke

Mark Bjerke — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:44:38 +0000

This is really good work and we are taking a careful look. Thank you for providing the project.