Offline Processing of POST Request

Question

I am developing an Application where I am submitting POST Requests to a .NET Web Service.

Current implementation is to process the request instantly and give response. In actual deployment, there will be huge amount of data that needs to be processed and thus the request must be processed offline.

What are the strategies that can have the task accomplished

Should I implement a Windows Service, or a scheduled task that invokes an application to perform the desired task.

Answer 1

This might be a good case for MSMQ. Your webservice can fill the queue with incoming data, and another process can read those messages and perform the necessary processing.

Here's a good overview of MSMQ:

http://www.primaryobjects.com/CMS/Article77.aspx