Hi Kevin
I have not heard anything that says this will be discontinued in the future.
Since I don't work at MS, I cant assure that this feature will be there in
the future versions too. But I like Service Broker very much and have a few
applications that uses SB heavily. The feeling that I have is that, this
feature will continue to exist in SQL Server.

regards
jacob

Usually it takes about two versions to slide something out (a notable
exception to this, of course, was notification services).  But I think
service broker is in an entirely different class and am not concerned that
it will be deprecated any time soon.  If anybody here knows anything
different, it's not public information, and so they can't answer you here
for the same reason they can't go trumpeting the news to the media outlets.
In other words, if you haven't seen an official announcement, you are not
going to bleed any secrets out of those "in the know."  That said, I am
still not worried.

I'm not sure you can judge the popularity, or future, or success of a
feature or product based on newsgroup activity.  Sometimes it is true that
lack of discussion means lack of interest or incredible foresight.  Other
times it just means, no news is good news, we are using service broker
successfully.

Think about the VB6 newsgroups and forums, which still have plenty of
activity, even though the technology they are using has long been abandoned
by its creator... And like them, if you are using service broker and at some
point it is discontinued, there is still a pretty lengthy shelf life of the
last version it is supported on, and of course you can continue beyond that
shelf life with that version for as long as you are willing to go
unsupported.  (Plenty of people continue to use SQL Server 2000, long after
its support lifecycle ended, and the newer versions are arguably better
suited for the long run than 2000 was.)  Even if it means keeping an "old"
instance of SQL Server around to handle the service broker stuff, and doing
bleeding edge stuff in a separate instance of a newer version.

I also continue to develop web sites using "classic" ASP, which continues to
be supported.  And since I very rarely need vendor support for SQL Server or
Windows, I can always resort to continuing to use the last version of server
that supports ASP, should it ever be deprecated, until the hardware dies.

On 8/25/08 2:32 PM, in article urJslDuBJHA.2264@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl, "Kevin
Horner" <khorner@hotmail.com> wrote:

SQL 2008 was just released with SB enhancements so it seems unlikely to me
that a development investment would be made in obsolete technology.

There has been talk about a SB WCF channel for some time so someone must
have a vision that these platforms can work together.  Of course, technology
changes and evolves so no one really knows what the future brings.  I
personally think Service Broker will be around for a while so I have no
qualms about developing new applications using the feature.