Service Broker is a key Microsoft product in support of messagebased processing between applications. helps you to take full advantage of this key Microsoft technology, beginning from the fundamentals, moving through installation and application development, and ultimately showing you how to develop highly available and scalable applications based upon the serviceoriented architecture that is quickly gaining ground as the way forward in application development. What youll learn Who this book is for is written for new and existing users of Service Broker who wish to develop serviceoriented and distributed transactions that scale well, that are resilient against failure, and that are as futureproofed as possible from the application of current best practices in Service Broker development.