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Learning WCF
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Learning WCF

by Michele Leroux Bustamante
May 2007
Intermediate to advanced
610 pages
20h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Choosing the Right Hosting Environment

As I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, choosing a hosting environment for your services is something that is largely driven by your operating platform and choice of protocol. Now that you’ve had a chance to explore the different hosting environments, you can probably guess that the best possible hosting environment would be the WAS for its rich set of features and protocol support. Unfortunately, WAS is available only on Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 machines.

Table 4-4 summarizes the hosting options available to you on each operating platform, including client and server platforms. Based on this summary, here are the likely choices you’ll make for your production services on each server platform:

  • For Windows Server 2003 machines, you’ll use IIS 6.0 for HTTP and Windows Services for other protocols.

  • For Windows Server 2008 machines, you’ll use IIS 7.0/WAS.

Table 4-4. A summary of hosting options based on operating platform and communication protocol

Operating platform

Protocol

Hosting options

Windows XP/SP2

HTTP

IIS 5.1 or self-host

 

Named pipes, TCP, MSMQ

Self-host

Windows Vista

HTTP, named pipes, TCP, MSMQ

IIS 7.0/WAS or self-host

Windows Server 2003

HTTP

IIS 6.0

 

Named pipes, TCP, MSMQ

Self-host

Windows Server 2008

HTTP, named pipes, TCP, MSMQ

IIS 7.0/WAS or self-host

For client systems, the choice is a little bit more complex. In-process services introduce the least configuration overhead for clients; thus, ...

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