Pro Windows Server AppFabric

Table of Contents

About the Authors

About the Technical Reviewers

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter Descriptions

Source Code

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

Introducing Windows Server AppFabric

Evolution of Distributed Applications

Difference Between Components and Services

Service Hosting Environment

Problems to Be Solved

Getting to AppFabric

Enough Already! What is AppFabric?

Who Is the Target Customer?

AppFabric Component Architecture

Key Scenarios Addressed by AppFabric

Composite Applications

Defining a Composite Application

Why Deploy Composite Applications?

Integration Applications

The Roadmap for AppFabric

Business Scenario

Summary

CHAPTER 2 Choosing AppFabric

BizTalk as an Integration Server

AppFabric as an Application Server

AppFabric and BizTalk: Friends or Enemies?

When to Choose AppFabric

When to Choose BizTalk Server

Key Differentiating Points

Points of Difference in the Overlap

BizTalk Server Adapters

Message-Based Correlation

Content-Based Routing

Long-Running Transaction Support

State Management

Tracking

Using AppFabric and BizTalk Server Together

Example 1: BizTalk Server with ESB and AppFabric

Example 2: BizTalk Server and AppFabric

Example 3: BizTalk Server and AppFabric

BizTalk Server or AppFabric

Cost Considerations

Planning for BizTalk Server vNext and AppFabric

Summary

CHAPTER 3 Laying the Foundation

Reviewing the Methods for Hosting a Service

Understanding IIS Architectural Changes

IIS 6 Architecture

IIS 7 Architecture

Installing WAS

Installing Activation Components

Configuring Site Bindings

Managing Protocols for Individual Applications

Creating an IIS 7 Application

Adding Protocols for an Application

Listing the Protocols for an Application

Removing Application Protocols

Access and Processing Considerations

Creating and Connecting to a Service

Understanding the .svc File

Creating a Service

Creating a Client

Incorporating Additional Protocols

Is WAS the Be All End All?

Summary

CHAPTER 4 Understanding the Architecture

AppFabric Architecture in a Nutshell

New Requirements

Foundation and Core Services

Runtime Components

Human Interface Layers

Visual Studio Support and Oslo

Visual Studio

Oslo

System Center Operational Management

Persistence Services

Review of Persistence: WF 3.5 vs. WF 4.0

Persistence Components in AppFabric

Persistence Components from .NET Framework 4.0

Persistence Components Specific to AppFabric

Hosting Services

Hosting Components from .NET 4.0

Hosting Components Specific to AppFabric

Monitoring Services

Tracking Profiles

Tracking Participants

Consumption of Tracking Data

Other Tracking and Monitoring Features

Caching Services

AppFabric Cache API

AppFabric Caching Services Session Store Provider

Stitching It All Together

New Service Activation

Integrity

Exception Handling

Suspension

Diagnostics

Visual Tools and Performance Counters

Summary

CHAPTER 5 Configuring AppFabric

Task 1: Preparing Your Computer for Installation

Step 1: Verify Hardware Requirements

Step 2: Verify Software Requirements

Step 3: Understanding the Impact

Security

Remote Databases

Remote Management

Task 2: Install Software Prerequisites

Step 1: Install Critical Windows Updates

Step 2: Install the Required Hotfixes

Step 3: Install the IIS 7.0 Administration Pack

Step 4: Install Windows PowerShell v2.0

Step 5: Install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express

Step 6: Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Step 7: Install the Web Deployment Tool

Step 8: Install AppFabric Caching Services

Task 3: Install and Configure AppFabric

Step 1: Install AppFabric

Step 2: Configure AppFabric

Step 3: Start Cache Host Services

Step 4: Verifying Successful Installation of AppFabric

Summary: What Did I Just Do?

CHAPTER 6 Developing WCF Applicationswith AppFabric

Incorporating the Business Scenario

Architectural Challenges of a Phase I Approach

WCF 4.0’s New Default Features

Default Endpoints

Creating a Default Endpoint

How Does It Work?

Default Bindings

Default Behaviors

Standard Endpoints

Enabling Dynamic Service Discovery in WCF 4.0

Ad Hoc Service Discovery

Using Scopes When Discovering Endpoints

Service Announcements

On the Service Side

On the Client Side

Managed Service Discovery

Summary

CHAPTER 7 Developing WF Applications

What’s New in WorkFlow 4.0

Incorporating the Business Scenario

Creating a Workflow

Methods for Creation

An Example

Creating an Activity

Gaining Greater Control

Creating a Sequence Workflow

Passing Data

How Data Is Stored

An Example—Passing a Dictionary Object

Getting the Result

Using WCF End Points for Workflows

Receive and SendReply Activities

Combining WF and WCF Code

Consuming an Endpoint

Adding Extensions

Tracking

Persistence

Tracking and Tracing Improvements

Summary

CHAPTER 8 Hosting in AppFabric

Deploying the Application to AppFabric

Adding a New Application Pool

Adding a New Web Site

Host Contoso WCF and WF Services

Deploying the Contoso WCF Services to AppFabric

Migrating to the WCF Service Application Project

Deploying a WCF Service Application

Making Other Required Modifications

Deploying a WF Service

Configuring the Contoso Claims Processing application in AppFabric

Deploy a Single Workflow Service

Configuring the Contoso Claims Processing Workflow Service

Adding the net.pipe Protocol

Enabling the net.pipe Protocol

Running the Application in AppFabric

Navigating to the AppFabric Dashboard

Invoking the Contoso Claims WCF and WF Services

Configuring the AppFabric Host for Troubleshooting

Enabling the Troubleshooting Tracking Level

Configuring the Action for an Unhandled Exception

Summary

CHAPTER 9 Deploying AppFabric Applications

Understanding the Tool

What You Get

The Underlying Foundation

Exporting an Application

Importing an Application

Managing and Deploying with PowerShell

Enable Execution

Review Available Commands

Learn to Pipe

Create Packages

Deploy Packages

Configure Application

Create Databases

Connection String

Reconfigure the Web Site

Consider Other Tasks

Summary

CHAPTER 10 Advanced Concepts

Content-Based Routing

Background and Motivation

Implementation

Defining Elements

Creating Filters and a Routing Table

Consuming the Configuration File

Dynamic Configuration

Error Handling

Message Correlation

Types of Correlation

Scope

Embedded Correlation

An Example

Long-Running Workflows

Compensation

Summary

CHAPTER 11 Monitoring and Tracking

Monitoring

The AppFabric Dashboard

Items that Affect Metric Counts

Setting the Monitoring Configuration Parameters

Choosing a Health Monitoring Level

Enabling Diagnostic Tracing and Message Logging

Archiving and Purging

The Automatic Method

The Manual Method

Associate a Destination Archive

Set the Archive Database Connection String

Purge from Monitoring Database

Remove Configuration Information

Remove Old Data

Tracking

Tracking Architecture

Tracking Profiles

Implementation Through Configuration

Implementation Through Code

Tracking Participants

Creating Your Own Tracking Participant

Summary

CHAPTER 12 Implementing High Availability

Planning for Scale-Out

Scaling Your AppFabric Persistence and Monitoring Databases

Expanding an AppFabric Server Farm

Failover Capabilities in AppFabric

Synchronizing AppFabric Servers

Prepare your Server Farm

Install Web Deployment Tool’s Remote Agent Service

View Your AppFabric Hosted Application Dependencies

Configure the Destination Server

Sync to the Destination Server

Backing up Your Server

Simulating the Synchronization Process

Synchronizing for Real

Future Roadmap for AppFabric High Availability

BizTalk Server

Windows Azure

Summary

CHAPTER 13 Upgrading to AppFabric

Workflows

Activities

Workflow Host

Passing Data

Rules

Workflow Types

Summary

Index