As an alternative, have a look at NServiceBus.

http://www.nservicebus.com/
http://udidahan.weblogs.us/2007/09/07/infoq-interview-on-nservicebus/

HTH

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:04 PM, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone can point me at some material, or offer any suggestions regarding the Service Broker.
>
> I am evaluating whether the Service Broker can be used as a fire and forget style 'message bus'.
>
> By which I mean whether it has the capability to call external services (say a WCF service) / programs, and what the best practice is for architecting such an infrastructure.
>
> eg, Does it offer the follow features :
>
>
> some app or 3rd party -> WCF -> message on a queue -> message filtered / processed based on a 'policy' -> message passed onto a different 3rd party service (WCF) -> acknowledgement -> retry ....
>
>
> OR
>
> is it more useful as a simple queue that can pass messages between SQLServer instances
>
> I realise you could hand-roll the processing / filtering and forwarding of messages to a 3rd party service, and use the Service Broker as the underlying queue, but wondered if it could offer more?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Ross


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