NSB - Send/Reply same application - nservicebus

Is it possible to configure NSB in a Send/Reply config such that the same application is responsible for both sending the message and processing/replying to the same message? The goal would be to leverage the durability of messaging provided by NSB.

Yes, you can either use the bus.SendLocal short cut or configure the messages with the address of your local input queue. SendLocal is probably what you want

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How to host MassTransit and RabbitMq

We are working towards an architecture like one below but we will have micro services on cloud and some on premises which will talk to each other using queue(s) and bus(es),
Now I am confused with where we should host MassTransit and RabbitMq, also should it be a ASP.NET Core project on its own ? if yes what I will be doing in it ? starting a bus ? creating queues ? I am not able to move forward with this
The simple MassTransit examples are just that, the absolute simplest examples of interacting with queues.
RabbitMQ is your message broker. It is hosted separately.
MassTransit is a development framework that makes it much easier to interact with RabbitMQ (or Azure Service Bus) by abstracting away the implementation-specific "plumbing."
You write any number of .NET services that either publish messages to a queue, or subscribe to queues.
We recently worked on something similar, the way we did it is:
RabbitMQ was hosted separately, and buses/queues creation and management were done from the services that use messaging.
For each service that receives messages you use Maastransit to create a queue because service will be receiving messages using this queue.
You will be using publish/subscribe way of messaging so as mentioned above, inside each service, create a queue with logical name and connect to RabbitMQ server address.
Services that represent senders will publish messages of a custom type you create, and services that represent receivers will subscribe to this type of messages by having a consumer for this type registered inside the bus created.
Hope it helps.

move hornetq message from a queue to another without reading it out

We have a use case where we would like to get a certain messages in a queue distributed into other queues after we browse the queue and get the message properties. Can that be done with JMS API for hornetq or should we use a JMX client as that seems to be a possible operation in jvisualvm?
I don't know if I understand You correctly but if You would like to copy from one queue to another only filtered messages You can use bridge.
http://docs.jboss.org/hornetq/2.3.0.CR2/docs/user-manual/html/core-bridges.html
In bridge configuration You can define which messages should be copied from one queue to another
It seems that org.hornetq.api.jms.management.JMSQueueControl from the HornetQ Management API will do the trick. I was hoping for some generic JMS API that would allow that as well but this will work.

Can any queuing system trigger external Applications

Right now we have a queuing system(activemq) which is storing the messages. And we have written a separate java application that will read the queue and then trigger a exe to do some processing. But we want to do away with this extra application that is linking our activemq and exe. So i want to know whether any queuing system houses a code which will help me run the exe without any extra code written by me.
Any inputs regarding which queuing system can get me this done will be greatly appreciated.
This isn't really how Message Brokers work. You could however embed a broker inside your own application or create a broker plugin to do something. In the end though the best way to do this is to create your own client that can implement your business logic and let the Message Broker do what it was designed to do, route message traffic.
If you want more of a 'push' solution rather than a producer-consumer solution (which sounds to me like you are) you could look into the use of WebSockets. That would be another way of dealing with messages.
As others have said it doesn't look like using a message broker is the solution you want if you don't want to have some additional middleware to provide asynchronous communication.
So you just need something to launch an EXE on message arrival?
Message Queuing Triggers
Just some additional information for you... Triggered applications are natively supported in IBM Websphere MQ via a Trigger Monitor application that runs as a service (in windows implementations) or a daemon (in UNixish implementations).
When a message arrives in a queue, the MQ software will generate another message ("Trigger" message and send it to the "Trigger" queue, which is being monitored by the Trigger Manager app. The app then starts the required application.
So your implementation of an "app to start an app" is not odd ball or strange at all.. IBM do it in their implementation. I see nothing wrong with your implementation and if you can integrate it tighter to activeMQ then you are on a winner.
What about IBM MQ's triggering feature ?
WebSphere MQ provides a feature that enables an application or channel to be started automatically when there are messages available to retrieve from a queue. A message is put to a queue defined as triggered. If a series of conditions are met, the queue manager sends a trigger message to an initiation queue.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_9.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q026940_.htm

Is it possible to configure multiple queues to one shovel?

I've got a webservice that accepts messages that can be sent to a RabbitMQ cluster using whatever queue they define. This is so front-end devs can send messages via javascript.
I want to make the webservice more robust so that when we have network trouble, the webservice can still accept messages and then handle them when the network is back up. After some initial reading, it seems that the Shovel plugin should handle this nicely.
What I was thinking was to install a local instance of RabbitMQ on the webservice box with shovel turned on. I can then send all messages through the local RabbitMQ instance and have it push all messages to the cluster and deal with the network problems.
My problem is after looking at the documentation it seems that I have to configure every queue I want to forward to in the shovel config file. If that's the case I'm not sure this will work since we allow clients to define a queue through the webservice on the fly.
I would like to have the webservice take the messages, hand them off to the local rmq instance and have it pass the messages off to the cluster using the same queues/exachanges/etc.
Has anyone tried this or can explain how the shovel plugin works?
Have you considered sending messages to an exchange instead of a queue. Send all messages to one exchange possibly a topic exchange if you need that kind of flexibility. Then have the consumer handle the different messages or different queues from the exchange. Sending to one exchange would make configuring the shovel considerably easier.

RabbitMQ subscriber notification in .NET

We are using MSMQ right now with WCF activation feature, it enables us not to pull queue to read messages. It like push message to application.
As we are looking at porting from MSMQ to RabbitMQ going through what we need from message queue.
I can't anything regarding RabbitMQ .net client support for receiving message notification from subscribed queue?
Is there anything in RabbitMQ with .net which can do push notification to subscriber like MSMQ?
Or we need service running which constantly checks for message?
In AMQP (and RabbitMQ), there are two ways to retrieve messages: basic.get and basic.consume.
Basic.get is used to poll the server for a message. If one exists, it is returned to the client. If not, a get-empty is returned (the .NET method returns null).
Basic.consume sets the consumer for the queue. The broker pushes messages to the consumer as they arrive. You can either derive DefaultBasicConsumer, which gives you your own custom consumer, or you can use the Subscription Message Pattern, which gives you a blocking nextDelivery().
For more information, check out the API guide linked above and the .NET Client Userguide. Also, a great place to ask RabbitMQ-related questions is the rabbitmq-discuss mailing list.
I think you are after something like the EventingBasicConsumer. See also this question/answer
That is a feature provided by WAS (Windows Activation Service). Right now WAS has listener adapters for net.pipe, net.msmq and net.tcp (and its port sharing service). I guess you would need a specific AMQP listener adapter.
This may help http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms789006.aspx