C# Queue or ServiceBus with no dependencies?

Question

Is there a product (ideally open source, but not necessary), that would enable a zero dependency deployment? every service bus or queue library I\'ve been able to find has a de

Answer 1

Have you thought about using a service like IronMQ by http://Iron.io?

You wouldn't have any dependencies, could quickly prototype apps without setting up any queue infrastructure, and it's highly available and fast.

There is not currently a locally installable version but it's based on the upcoming OpenStack protocol so there will be.

Btw I work for Iron.

Answer 2

Why not Amazon's message service Simple Queue Service?

Answer 3

I'm currently working on an open source WCF based service bus. You can find it here: http://rockbus.codeplex.com/. It supports dynamic (@run-time) subscriptions, subcription repository (database), pluggable transports, XPath based content-based routing, transactional delivery over wcf protocols, roundrobin delivery, pluggable subscription evaluation, and more. Have a look!

Answer 4

Rhino Queues from Ayende is exactly what you are looking for, this is the blog post introducing it:

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/08/01/Rhino-Queues.aspx

I think that all of the limitations mentioned in this post have been fixed since then.

From the blog post, what rhino queues is:

• XCopyable, Zero Administration, Embedded, Async queuing service
• Robust in the face of networking
• outages System.Transactions support
• Fast
• Works over HTTP