Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers [Paperback]

Alan Dickman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201325810 | ISBN-13: 978-0201325812 | Publication Date: September 10, 1998 | Edition: 1

"This book is an invaluable resource for learning about MSMQ." --Peter Houston MSMQ Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ)--which is incorporated into the newest version of Windows NT--brings asynchronous transaction processing (TP) capabilities to the Windows platform for the first time. MSMQ combines the high performance and robustness of mainframe transaction processing with a flexibility of objects, an administrative ease-of-use, and an ability to scale. As such MSMQ is a key technology contributing to the growth of Internet commerce and intranet distributed processing. Whether you are a Windows programmer who is new to transaction processing or a UNIX programmer who wants to learn more about MSMQ, this book will introduce you to the topic and show you how to develop transaction-processing applications using the MSMQ technology. Designing Applications with MSMQ offers an overview of the general design of queued messaging applications and a discussion on how MSMQ can be used in two-tier, three-tier, Web, and component architecture applications.This book also provides a detailed description of MSMQ architecture, queue, and message properties, as well as a detailed description of how MSMQ interacts with other transaction technologies, such as MTS and SQL Server. A step-by-step tutorial shows you how to write MSMQ applications using COM components, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and the MSMQ API. In addition to the tutorial, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to transaction processing and develops a full-scale application using MSMQ that illustrates the technology's power and potential for this emergent field. 0201325810B04062001

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The new Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) brings reliable message delivery to the Windows NT platform. Written for the developer or manager, this book shows you ways to design sophisticated messaging systems, along with practical MSMQ programming knowledge.

Early chapters look at the rich design possibilities of MSMQ, including reliable asynchronous communications (where parties do not have to be online together) and today's three-tiered architectures (where business rules are kept on the server). From this general perspective, Designing Applications with MSMQ moves to practical examples of an MSMQ program written two ways: through COM objects that work with tools, such as Visual Basic and Visual C++, and a more basic C API. Once a simple MSMQ program is created, the author shows how it can be enhanced, by making it asynchronous, for instance, for offline message delivery.

A tour of MSMQ's security features and support for transactions follows, including when and how to use Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) with MSMQ. (Besides an introduction to these Microsoft technologies, the author does a fine job of explaining transaction processing in general.) The included appendix features a full reference on all nine MSMQ COM objects, plus the MSMQ C API. --Richard Dragan

Review

Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) is relatively new software for Microsoft, but not a new kind of software; other vendors have sold similar products for a long time. MSMQ, however, represents Microsoft's first crack at asynchronous, time-independent transaction processing. But although MSMQ is new in Microsoft's space, it is important since it is incorporated in Windows 2000 and merged in older versions through the NT 4.0 Option Pack. Also, MSMQ will be tightly integrated with COM+, the next generation of COM.

Once you've decided that your middleware should be based on a queue, MSMQ becomes a primary option to consider. Designing Applications With MSMQ, by Alan Dickman, examines MSMQ from the perspective of application design, rather than, say, a programmer's reference for using MSMQ. Ultimately, the book explains why you may need MSMQ within a queued messaging system and how to take advantage of it. Read more --Dino Esposito, Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Dr. Dobb's Journal

This book is an invaluable resource for learning about MSMQ.
-- Peter Houston, Microsoft Corporation

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (September 10, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201325810
• ISBN-13: 978-0201325812
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,060,860 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rewrite of MSDN, August 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers (Paperback)

I started using MSMQ in June by reading the help files available in MSDN. After a couple of weeks I wanted to go deeper with MSMQ and bought Alan Dickman's book. To my suprise he does not add any new information that is not available in the MSDN. If you have MSDN library, do not waste your money on this book, it's all there in the help files. Note: my book (ISBN: 0-201-32581-0, 2nd printing) only contained just over 300 pages, when this page says it contains 512.

There are only a couple of examples in the book and they are VERY easy.

A beginners book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book covering both the com & API interfaces to MSMQ, September 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers (Paperback)

The book is well structured and intutive. It is a good introduction to MSMQ and covers the interfaces to MSMQ well. The book is limited to the extent that it does not provide insight into MSMQ beyond the obvious. Further, the source code for this book is not available at the web site indicated in the book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good Overview but somewhat lightweight, April 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Designing Applications with MSMQ: Message Queuing for Developers (Paperback)

This book is primarly geared toward the VB folks. He addresses the C API but barely touches the COM C++ interface. Specifically, questions which are not resolved are 1.) Do I have to use smart pointers when I do not want to? 2.) How do you handle MSMQ Events with the C++? The examples given in VB do not extend to C++ and there is no clear way to go from registering MSMQEvent to the _DMSMQEventEvents implementation. I had to resort to the C API.