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• MuSti Biztalk server 2004 Data Access

  Can I use a Data Access tier without writing a adapter in biztalk 2004 for a receive location looks difficult, perhaps another one could help more... well issue is we claim that our application is database independent so enabling this functionality truly i have to write or buy atleast Two adapters for oracle and DB2 for biztalk 2004 workflows. To avoid this I am thinking about hosting all Data Access Layer on Biztalk Some how. cus ...Show All

• LonW What about making domain specific "Enterprise Library" ?

  Presently "Enterprise Library" is related to Application Development Process. Desinging "Enterprise Library" for the best practices is good. But what about making enterprise library... related to Solution Specific, I mean to say domain specific... For eg. - Financial, Manufacturing, ...etc. I think if Tom and his team start developing EntLib for every domain, they will be coding forever... Domains are huge ...Show All

• Raiden_S the best orm for .net?

  I would like to know your favorites, i am looking for a free one and with caching capabilities. We evaluated a series of ORM tools, and ended up with Codus http://www.adapdev.com/codus/index.aspx It's based on NVelocity, a template based code generator.  We chose Codus because it matched our thinking best, which is more in the domain camp than in the table driven camp.  NHibernate and LLBLGen Pro was also serious candidate ...Show All

• CLover Extensibility hooks meet Enterprise Library?

  Wow! I hope this forum starts to get a bunch of traffic from the architctecture community.  I really have been looking for something like this to post the really hard architecture questions I'm dealing with at the office. Most recently that has been surrounding the usage of the enterprise library and how we can embrace and extend it to help achieve high levels of productivity when delivering line of business applications.  The ...Show All

• Oin Zea External Authorization manager

  Hi All, I was just wondering what will be a good approch to Externalize Authorization from application code. Is it possible to do a application context sensitive rule based authorization via an external Authorization manager. XACML maybe If we narrow down the domain to just web services, can WS-Policy be used to create and enforce general purpose authorization policy Is there already something out there Regards, Rana ...Show All

• Azael Why custom business object's while i can't update my database with them ?

  Hi, i have this big problem in my architecture : i want to build my object model by using the idea of collections, so i have a Customers object, a Customer object, an Orders object, and an Order object, and so on... the Problem is that those custom business objects, hold my data, and of corse, i want to update my database by using the data in those object's, and oop's, the DataAdapter don't accept custome business objects as a parameter !! (o ...Show All

• jowjow Data access application block Vs Tool generated DAL

  Hi, Can somebody throw light upon what are the differences between a data access layer generated by a OR mapping layer generated using a tool (which generates the code for DAL and having all the sql's embedded inside it) and using a data access application block provided by microsoft and when to use what. My feeling is that DAAB provided only flexiblity of database indepenndence by using factiory methods while tool generated DAL code helps ...Show All

• Jordi Serres Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table

  Quality attribute requirements drive the design of architecture and the resulting views of the architecture.    A Software Architectural Synthesis Factor Table results from several iterations of putting together different abstraction levels and then views of an architecture.   I had an old factor table that came from an old project that in the end the client decided would be to costly to move forward with.   I thought I ...Show All

• godzilla9 Message vs Service.

  EmailValidation message vs EmailValidation Service. SOA is mostly about services and messages. Rather than create a number of services with different names would it be recomended if we create 1 generic service and have it request/reply messages. For ex: EmailValidation service. Instead of creating a service for email validation, create a validationService and have it process all the validation messages for the application. Just wondering how ...Show All

• TBJ passing lookup values out and into services

  Hi all, This time I want you opinion on the following scenario: I have a service which returns info about an entity. Some of the information is based on lookup values (lookup=code/decode, such as "male/female", "small/medium/large" etc.) My options to output these values from the service are: 1. output them as the coded integers (male=1, female=2) - this is a problem because I shouldn't expose my inner data to the ...Show All

• michaelos Design Patterns

  What is the usage of common GoF design patterns in daily coding I ask this because as a developer I'm constantly trying to improve both my code and my overall design, to create software that's easy to maintain and easy to extend--- hopefully easy to change without effecting the 'client' aspect through the use of interfaces etc--- Is there a more straight forward application of certain design patterns For example, does anyone sit down and actu ...Show All

• jbranton workflow engine and rule engine performance

  Please give me your criticakl comments on performance degradation issues arising out of usage ofworkflow and rule engine vis a vis increase in scalability and agility I have one confusion regarding rule engines. Is there any recommended language for rule generation asi came across BPEL. if that so where can i get guidelines for this language. Also is their any rule engine/worflow engine which generates . ...Show All

• Reg J Design Patterns

  What is the usage of common GoF design patterns in daily coding I ask this because as a developer I'm constantly trying to improve both my code and my overall design, to create software that's easy to maintain and easy to extend--- hopefully easy to change without effecting the 'client' aspect through the use of interfaces etc--- Is there a more straight forward application of certain design patterns For example, does anyone sit down and actu ...Show All

• GJCreme Designing web apps in the enterprise

  Hi all, In my organization we have multiple web apps, each of them serving a different part of the organization. Because the vision is that all apps will be using the same infrastructure and might share information (pages and services), the original design of the web site was to declare a single web site (single virtual directory), and each of the apps will just be a folder in the site (meaning all apps will use the same iis application). ...Show All

• Luke Westendorf MSFT SQL 2005 and Visio for Enterprise Architects Database

  I reverse engeneered a SQL2005 database into Visio for EA where I had utilized the new schema feature (like what was done in the sample Adventure Works database). After the db schema was generated I was happy to see the the schema name appeared in the owner attribute of the table definition. However, I was unable to change the owner to a different schema name. Additionally, if I create a new database design, it appears I cannot associate an owne ...Show All