Up to this point, we have delved heavily into MSMQ. In later chapters, we will also cover RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ. If you know MSMQ very well, learning RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ will be simple, except that these technologies are not as tightly coupled to the Windows Server as MSMQ.

Let's face it: as a developer, and architect, you are likely reading this chapter to keep up your skills. Your skills get you jobs. If you are skilled in both Java and C#, your chances of getting employment is greater. The same logic applies if you know how to build enterprise systems not only using message queues, but databases as well. It will be easier to find server people who can administrate the databases rather than message queue systems simply because databases are prevalent in storing data for a multitude of desktop systems as well. Therefore, you may want to use databases for message queuing. Most projects spend a lot of time persisting data to the databases and building tables and databases...