Starting self hosted WCF services on demand
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Is it possible to start self hosted WCF services on demand?
I see two options to accomplish this:
Insert a listener in the self hosted WCF's web server and spin up a service host when a request for a specific service comes in, before WCF starts looking for the existence of that endpoint; or
Integrate a web service in process, start a service host for a request if it isn't running yet and redirect the request to that service host (like I suspect IIS does).
I cannot use IIS or WAS because the web services need to run in process with the UI business logic.
Which is feasible and how can I accomplish this?
EDIT:
I cannot just start the service hosts because there are hundreds, most (about 95%) of which are (almost) never used but need to be available. This is for exposing a business logic layer of 900 entities.
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