VirtualService for ESB

The Microsoft recently released a version of the .NetFX 3.5 where introduced a new context driven service model called as WorkflowService. This model is based on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) technologies. It represents a logical model of the connectivity to expose a workflow. The service operation in the workflow is abstracted into the new context driven activity such as ReceiveActivity based on the Contract-First or Workflow-First declaration.

The business connected layers represented by the client (channel) or new context driven activity (SendActivity) can consume a Workflow Service transparently like another standard service in the sync or async manner with a variant of the Message Exchange Patterns (MEP) such as Input/Output, Request/Reply, Session, Duplex, etc., over different physical transports such as tcp, http, msmq, pipe, etc. It is a great open connectivity paradigm with the ability to customize and extend all elements based on the business needs......

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