Relay bindings in .NET Service Bus

Microsoft .NET Service Bus currently offers ten relay bindings, with different messaging patterns and various message options, giving developers a range of choices of service implementations. Moreover, different relay bindings fit different characteristics.

NetEventRelayBinding is preferred to enable publish/subscribe scenario; NetTcpRelayBinding is optimized for both efficiency and throughput; NetOnewayRelayBinding is the most constrained binding; and bindings from BasicHttpRelayBinding to WS2007HttpRelayFederationBinding are designed for non-WCF clients.

These ten relay bindings really took me some time to digest. For those who just start learning, I think a list of replay bindings with all messaging patterns and default message options would be helpful.

Relay Binding	Messaging Patterns	Default Message Options from Sender
BasicHttpRelayBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	SOAP 1.1 over HTTP in plain encoding
WebHttpRelayBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	REST over HTTP in plain encoding
WSHttpRelayBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	SOAP with WS-* protocols over HTTP
WS2007HttpRelayBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	SOAP with OASIS standard WS-* protocols over HTTP
WSHttpRelayContextBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	SOAP with WS-* protocols over HTTP
WS2007HttpRelayFederationBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging	SOAP with OASIS standard WS-* protocols over HTTP
NetTcpRelayBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging Peer-to-PeerMessaging	SOAP 1.2 over TCP in binary encoding
NetTcpRelayContextBinding	Req./Resp. Messaging Peer-to-PeerMessaging	SOAP 1.2 over TCP in binary encoding
NetOnewayRelayBinding	UnicastOne-way Messaging	SOAP 1.2 over TCP in binary encoding
NetEventRelayBinding	MulticastOne-way Messaging	SOAP 1.2 over TCP in binary encoding