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Windows Activation Service in Windows 2003

I know (Windows Activation Service) WAS is advertised as part of Windows 2008 / Vista / 7, but since it appears in the components of the .NET 3.5 environment in the components of the Windows Control Panel, I was wondering if anyone knows / under Windows 2003.

I am trying to host a WCF server in WAS under Windows 2003 (written in .NET C #)

Alternatively, does anyone know of any good open source application servers that can be used to host .NET servers? (TomCat for .NET ?!)

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WAS is part of IIS7, which is available only for Vista and Win Server 2008.

In Win Server 2003, you can either host your WCF service in IIS, which restricts you to only http (basicHttp or wsHttp), or - in my preferred way - you can host your WCF service yourself.

Typically, you host your WCF service in a console application for testing / debugging, and then put it in a Windows NT service for production - this works around the clock, without registration, and supports ALL WCF bindings (not just http, but also Net.TCP , NetNamedPipe, MSMQ, etc.).

Mark

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You can always collapse your own WCF host. I used this concept as an example.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/generic_wcf_host.aspx

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You can host the WCF service in IIS on Windows 2003 if you use basichttpbinding or wshttpbinding.

You can also host the WCF service as a Windows service in Windows 2003.

WAS is not available in Windows 2003.

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