Advanced Topics in WCF

You have investigated the WCF basics of creating services, evaluated the "out-of-the-box" hosting options, and learned how to consume them using clients. You have also learned about the management tools available in WCF to efficiently manage these WCF services. These features will assist you in creating simple WCF applications. However, the realworld SOA applications will have many other demanding features to implement.

These complex real-world web service implementations will address security issues (both client and service), reliable messaging, transactions, COM+ integration, data integration issues, and peer-to-peer communications. An enterprise can achieve the eventual "value proposition" by utilizing these advanced features of WCF. In this part, you will concentrate on these topics. In addition, you'll investigate the WCF interoperability options available to seamlessly communicate with non-Microsoft platforms in Chapter 13.