Microsoft
Like Oracle and IBM, Microsoft offers an SOA platform. To make the comparison with IBM and Oracle a little easier, the Microsoft products are mapped on the reference architecture that you learned about in the previous chapter.
Services
Services are created using Windows Communication Framework (WCF). This development framework can be deployed or hosted as follows:
Self-hosting in a managed .NET application
Hosted as a Windows service
IIS, the web server of the Microsoft platform
Events
Message-oriented middleware
As a queuing solution, Microsoft offers Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ). It is part of the Windows operating system. Messages are stored and forwarded by MSMQ until they reach the destination queue. Later, when a recipient application runs, it can retrieve the messages from the queue. MSMQ provides built-in security and transaction support.
Complex Event Processing (CEP)
Microsoft StreamInsight is the platform that you can use to analyze large amounts of data that are streaming...
