spring-net/doc/reference/src/wcf-quickstart.xml

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<chapter id="wcf-quickstart">
  <title>WCF QuickStart</title>

  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>The WCF quickstart application shows how to configure your WCF
    services using dependency injection and how to to apply AOP advice to your
    services. It is based on the same interfaces used in the <link
    linkend="remoting-quickstart">portable service abstractions
    quickstart</link> example that demonstrates similar features for .NET
    Remoting, Enterprise Services, and ASMX web sevices. At the moment the
    quickstart example is only available as a VS.NET 2008 solution.</para>

    <para>There are two server applications in the solution, one is a web
    application where the WCF service will be hosted, and the other is a
    self-hosting console application, (Spring.WcfQuickStart.Server.2008. The
    client application is located in Sprng.WcfQuickStart.ClientApp.2008. To
    run the solution make sure that all three projects are set to
    startup.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>The server side</title>

    <para>The service contract is shown below</para>

    <programlisting>    [ServiceContract(Namespace = "http://Spring.WcfQuickStart")]
    public interface ICalculator
    {
        [OperationContract]
        double Add(double n1, double n2);
        [OperationContract]
        double Subtract(double n1, double n2);
        [OperationContract]
        double Multiply(double n1, double n2);
        [OperationContract]
        double Divide(double n1, double n2);
        [OperationContract]
        string GetName();
    }</programlisting>

    <para>and the implementation is straightforward, only adding a property
    that controls how long each method should sleep. An abbreviated listing of
    the implementation is shown below </para>

    <programlisting>    public class CalculatorService : ICalculator
    {
        private int sleepInSeconds;

        public int SleepInSeconds
        {
            get { return sleepInSeconds; }
            set { sleepInSeconds = value; }
        }

        public double Add(double n1, double n2)
        {
            Thread.Sleep(sleepInSeconds*1000);
            return n1 + n2;
        }


        // other methods omitted for brevity.

    }</programlisting>

    <section>
      <title>DI using dynamic proxies</title>

      <para>The approach using dynamic proxies is used in the console
      application inside the Spring.WcfQuickStart.Server.2008 project. For
      more information on this approach refer to this <link
      linkend="wcf-di-proxy">section</link> in the reference docs. The
      configuration of your service is done as you would typically do with
      Spring, including applying of any AOP advice. The class is hosted inside
      the console application through the use of Spring's
      <classname>ServiceHostFactoryObject</classname> exporter. The
      configuration for the server console application is shown below. </para>

      <programlisting>    &lt;objects xmlns="http://www.springframework.net"
             xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.net/aop"&gt;
     
      &lt;!-- Service definition --&gt;
      &lt;object id="calculator" singleton="false"
              type="Spring.WcfQuickStart.CalculatorService, Spring.WcfQuickStart.ServerApp"&gt;
        &lt;property name="SleepInSeconds" value="1"/&gt;
      &lt;/object&gt;

      &lt;object id="serviceOperation" type="Spring.Aop.Support.SdkRegularExpressionMethodPointcut, Spring.Aop"&gt;
        &lt;property name="pattern" value="Spring.WcfQuickStart.*"/&gt;
      &lt;/object&gt;
      
      &lt;object id="perfAdvice" type="Spring.WcfQuickStart.SimplePerformanceInterceptor, Spring.WcfQuickStart.ServerApp"&gt;
        &lt;property name="Prefix" value="Service Layer Performance"/&gt;
      &lt;/object&gt;
      
      &lt;aop:config&gt;
        &lt;aop:advisor pointcut-ref="serviceOperation" advice-ref="perfAdvice"/&gt;
      &lt;/aop:config&gt;

      &lt;!-- host the service object --&gt;
      &lt;object id="calculatorServiceHost" type="Spring.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactoryObject, Spring.Services"&gt;
        &lt;property name="TargetName" value="calculator" /&gt;
      &lt;/object&gt;

    &lt;/objects&gt;</programlisting>

      <para>Look at the standard WCF configuration section in App.config for
      additional configuration details. In that section you will see that the
      name of the WCF service corresponds to the name of the service object
      inside the spring container.</para>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>DI using WCF extension points</title>

      <para>This approach uses Spring specific implementation of the WCF
      interfaces
      <classname>System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.IInstanceProvider</classname>
      and
      <classname>System.ServiceModel.Description.IServiceBehavior</classname>
      are used to integrate Spring directly into the instancing of WCF
      services. For more information on this approach refer to this <link
      linkend="wcf-di-extension-points">section</link> of the reference
      documentation. The web application shows this approach in action.</para>

      <para>Much of the configuration ob the objects is the same as before,
      the .svc file though refers to the type of the service inside the Spring
      container as well as using Spring's
      Spring.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactory. The .svc file is
      shown below.</para>

      <programlisting>&lt;%@ ServiceHost Language="C#" Debug="true" Service="Spring.WcfQuickStart.CalculatorService" 
                                           Factory="Spring.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceHostFactory" %&gt;
</programlisting>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Client access </title>

    <para>The project Spring.WcfQuickStart.ClientApp.2008 is a console
    application that calls the two WCF services. It creates a client side
    proxy based on using ChannelFactory&lt;T&gt;.CreateChannel. Running the
    client application produces the following output.</para>

    <programlisting>--- Press &lt;return&gt; to continue ---
Web Calculator
Add(1, 1) : 2
Divide(11, 2) : 5.5
Multiply(2, 5) : 10
Subtract(7, 4) : 3

ServerApp Calculator
Add(1, 1) : 2
Divide(11, 2) : 5.5
Multiply(2, 5) : 10
Subtract(7, 4) : 3

--- Press &lt;return&gt; to continue ---
</programlisting>
  </section>
</chapter>