Application Server equivalent on Windows

I have a question regarding how to write a windows server side application.

We have now have a system whose client is 开发者_运维问答.NET 4.0 based and a server side application running on jboss on Linux. The server application talks to an Oracle DB.

I am now thinking to move the server side to Windows and DB to SQL server. The server application should be written in C# on .NET as well. However, there seems no Application Server equivalent on Windows. How is a server application normally written and deployed on Windows?

Many thanks

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There are a few options, but the very basics would be

1. Host WCF web services in IIS and take advantage of the management IIS offers, you can bring AppFabric into the picture for more robust and manageable hosting.

2. Self host your service in a Windows Service.

If it suites your application I would say the AppFabric solution is worth looking at. But this is not a 1-to-1 with with a Java Application Server.

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Update

Self hosting WCF is as simple as the follow

host = new ServiceHost(typeof(YourWcfService));
host.Open();

This assumes that you have defined a service called YourWcfService'. The above code in theOnStart` of a Windows Service will start accepting requests to your service. Of course this still requires all the basic configuration in the app.config file.

AppFabric, however gives you a nice environment to manage and monitor your services, so not to sound like a broken record, but I would look into it to see if it is possibly a good fit for you.

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Update 2:

I did a quick bing and found this MSDN post, it is oldish but looks like a good example. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx

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It's not exactly true, there are couple of almost unknow but powerful tools that you can use free:

• NetFluid: http://www.netfluid.org/
• Service Stack: http://www.servicestack.net