Making WCF Simple
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The document discusses various challenges that can arise when adopting the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework for building large service-oriented solutions. It outlines solutions to issues like versioning services, high availability, configuration management, monitoring, security, and identity management. Specific patterns and techniques are proposed that leverage capabilities in WCF like routing, discovery, centralized configuration, and tracking to address these challenges. The key recommendation is to start small and iterate when adopting WCF in an organization.
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Making WCF Simple
- 2. Chief Architect, Tellago, Tellago Studios, Inc
- 9. Service Versioning Remove Endpoint-Coupling Between Services and Clients Managing WCF Configuration WCF Services Availability Monitoring Services Security && Identity Management
- 12. Versioning services imposes large degrees of changes on the clients Multiple versions of the same services might need to be running side by side Solution: Use WCF Routing Service to abstract the communication across different service versions Service v1 Client Routing Service Service v2
- 15. Clients are dependent on WCF endpoint changes High availability requires the deployment of expensive hardware solutions Solution: Use WS-Discovery to adapt to endpoint changes WS-Discovery Probe, Match Service Client WS-Discovery Probe, Match Service
- 18. Complexity Enforcing reusability and consistency across services, clients and environments Solution: Centralize WCF configuration Configuration Repository GET client/config GET service/config Client Service
- 21. Identifying when a service is available Avoiding the need for executing service logic Solution: Implement a Ping Operation Invoker Ping Client Service Ping Response Ping Operation Invoker
- 24. Instrument the message exchange between client and services Collect near real time metrics about the service runtime behavior Track the data exchange between clients and services Solution: Enable and extend service tracking using the Windows Server AppFabric Client Service
- 26. Security Identity management Service dependency modeling Interoperability Governance Testing
- 27. Adopting WCF in big SO solutions can introduce some interesting challenges The extensibility of the WCF programming model together with well established patterns, tools and techniques that can help to address those challenges Start small, iterate, adopt what makes sense for your organization
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