CM's Blog – February 2009 Archive (3)

Many users are familiar with utilizing Neuron for Location Transparency and Services Mediation as well as standard EAI. And, a fair number of users are familiar with using Neuron's pipeline features such as WF or Notifications or Transformation.



Very few users however are aware that you can achieve patterns with Neuron that seem to require a classic orchestration engine. I was asked recently about one of those patterns Scatter-Gather and provided a solution that was targeted to that… Continue

Sometimes it's desirable to utilize Neuron as an onramp for services that don't actually exist....What do I mean by that?



Well imagine you had a set of stored procedures that had served a traditional client server or pure server side architecture well and you wanted to expose them to new WCF clients. One option would be to create a WCF service that exposes the operations and have all the goodness of contracts and another platform and application to manage.



Another option… Continue

Many times when on site I'm asked how do we achieve "guaranteed delivery" or "zero message loss"? with Neuron. The answer is somewhat involved but hopefully after reading this blog you'll understand the pieces that need to be in place.



First, is the environment 2003/XP? If it is, then the story is that if all messaging i.e. parties will run on the server then you run one Neuron server and use the MSMQ channel. Cluster the Neuron box for HA.



The only scaling that is… Continue