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• Amitkumar Jain Architecture Frameworks

    How important are the architecture frameworks like "Zachman, IAF, the DYA framework and Tapscott" for software architects to study And what priority must you give them Greetings Clemens (you missed TOGAF) Frameworks provide a broad (and sometimes deep) structure that guide the process of trawling for requirements and then elaborating and documenting the architecture that implements them. They also provide a stan ...Show All

• KiwiJohn MS caching Block

  Hi, I need to know whether MS caching block for .net applications runs in the appdomain of application or is its appdomain different from application appdomain. Does it survives the application restart. If yes, then how Also need to know how it is different from Asp.net caching block. Is it same as using Application object(like application.add()). I am of the view that Asp.net caching uses System.Web. HttpRuntime .Cach ...Show All

• Roesel Information about Essential Unified Proccess

  There is some information available about Essential Unified Process, if not, when this could be Is this event presential or going to be online too I am in Ecuador - SouthAmerica from Ivar Jacobson's site: Ivar Jacobson International are pleased to announce an event to formally launch the Essential Unified Process . This will be held at the Natural History Museum in central London UK on 27th June 2006. Essent ...Show All

• F. C. User Connection ratio for asp.net application

  I am designing a web application and using some underlying reader classes. I see the number of connections to database are much more than users, may be 5-6 times. I think the number of user and connections should be same or almost same. I ran some vanilla code with out underlying reader class and found out that number of user and connections are same(almost). Underlying reader class use type data set and extend reader class for type dataset f ...Show All

• Colin Meek - Microsoft workflow systems differentiation

  I am doing research on workflow managements systems. Recently, I browsed thorough a website http://www.workflow-research.de/Publications/PDF/MIZU.ROAL-EIP(2000).PDF which differentiates all the workflow systems in two parts.One are autonomous type(funtional withour any other additional application software) and other are embedded one (which use other applications softwares to work with). Please let me now that workflow mangements sof ...Show All

• SolarWind XMI to Model

  Hi, If we have an XMI file generated by a tool (used ArgoUML), is there a way to construct the model back from the XMI file (i.e. visually). Is there any tool or plugin which does that Thank you. It would be great if you could be more specific about which models are you working with, and where you want to construct the modul back. Dependening on your specific details, there may be ways of u ...Show All

• Roger_MS good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application

  Hello, can anybody recommand a good C# 2.0 architecture book for Window application I moved from VB6 to C#. Need a intrduction book for clear writing, not high level with samples. Some samples on N-tier design is better. Thanks. These are excellent for Software Architecture: Software Systems Architecture , Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd Edition ( here it is online to give you an idea of what it is about) This ...Show All

• Mikeymac The AdventureWorks Database Diagram Sucks!

  Hi Architects and Data Modelers, Although this database may be big leap forward from the Northwind database, how much thought (do you think) was put into the schema 1. Who was the consulting company that created this 2. Does it follow all of the rules of normalization 3. Which normalization rules does it break 4. Do you like how the natural keys were derived 5. Do you wish they used more surrogate or natural keys 6. Do you like their choice of ...Show All

• StokerC Who is the appserver in .NET?...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server?

  Some days ago, a coworker ask me the following question: Who is the appserver in .NET ...IIS, the OS, BizTalk, SQL Server ...after thinking for 5 seconds, I decided to anwser...well...it depends...could we all of them or neither. What do you think about An application server typically provides the following services: Application connectivity Transaction management Component life cycle management ...Show All

• Amy Greenwood UML/Modeling Tools you are using?

  One of the problems I have found in VSTS 2005 is the lack of modeling tools for the Software Architect. Jack Greenfield addressed and answered my concerns here . He also said MS is working on some addressing some of the issues. I responded to him here . I needed something today to allow me to continue doing my job which currently is implementing a product line engineering process. I am using UML on this project. In case you are interes ...Show All

• Joao Ferreirinha Microsoft Certifications- Good, Bad, or Ugly?

  I would like your opinions on Microsoft Certifications. My opinion is posted here: http://realworldsa.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/microsoftcertifications.htm If you go, please take the poll to the right.  I am interested because of the situation I am finding with the resume story I have in the blog. I want to know how off base or on base the architecture community feels my opinion is. Bla ...Show All

• MichelJonker Business Rules & Recommended Tools

  I'm looking at Mosaico, NxBre, Infrex, QuickRules and I'm wondering which, if any, would be a good choice for implementing a Business Rules system. My basic requirement is to be able to define business rules outside the code base so that when they change I don't have to recompile and redeploy the base application. I am wondering if anyone here has any experience with any of these tools and if so, which one did you prefer What are the major feat ...Show All

• Loic Baumann Storing parent reference vs ID in business objects

  Our development team is discussing the pros and cons of storing hierarchical information in business classes. Let's use a banking system as an example. Is there any cons to storing a reference to the parent object in child objects (for example, storing a reference to the account in each transaction) Now, we don't want to make it mandatory. For example, when getting a specific transaction based on some ID value, the Account property that refer ...Show All

• tbiggins How to best implement an Orchestration Layer?

  So after carefully divding and separating our middle tier into lously-coupled services, the need for an orchestration layer that sits on top of all the services became apparent. I'm curious to see how others are implementing this orchestration layer: using something like Biztalk or another code layer that plays the role. BizTalk seems great at managing a business workflow, but what if this orchestration layer needs to aggregate data from mult ...Show All

• richard.broadhurst Session Management for Distributed Remote Application in C#

  Hi In my Distributed Remoting Application i am using Command Pattern for Remoting. Now i want to add session management in the application. Whenever commad executor called it should check for the session. The design scenario is C# - SQL Server 2000 - Windows Application. Multiple Client. Single Business Logic (Middle Tier). Single DB Server.   Suggest me the best way to do session management. Arnon ...Show All