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• rogertan Enterprise Application Architecture - Purposes, Components, Architecture with OO's Eyes

  It revolves around many related concepts, models and patterns. Primary principle will be to achieve the primary objective that is to develop the application, which will meet the entire requirement. Now the question will arises: How ease to build to implement the design How much time is required What is cost How it will be maintained Is it a tempering proof Whether this is scalable What will be Load balancing factor ...Show All

• N B Identity and Access Management

  Microsoft Architect Insight Conference, 22-23 March, Newport, UK This exclusive two-day retreat for senior enterprise, infrastructure and solutions architects, at The Celtic Manor Resort, will feature renowned industry speakers such as Ivar Jacobson, creator of the Rational Unified Process and Martin Fowler, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, along with speakers from the event sponsors: Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and ThoughtWorks. ...Show All

• Alan Robbins Choosing deisng pattern

  Hi. Your help is very appreciated. I want to build an app that is basically a client db. For that I am contructing a "client" class (that has - name, address, contact details etc...). However, I want to enable my users, to add properties to my "client" class WITOUHT needing to change my code . i.e. some clients might require an "age" and "annual income" properties as part of the "client" class. Which design pattern(s) might assist me ...Show All

• Darrell Snow Windows Installer

  Probabily this is wrong section, but i don't know how post it. I'm making a project installer project with windows installer 3.1. I'd like, at the end of installation, that the installer execute my application. Some one know how I asked a simliar question in this thread http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=138476&SiteID=1 It has to be possible.... This is what I did: Add an Installer Class to st ...Show All

• treasacrowe General business object requirements

  For those of you who have worked on medium to large sized projects, or anyone who has an opinion , I would like to know what types of logic an application needs in the business layer. If the objects expose properties and collections, is a simple validation on write all that's needed I guess the objects also have methods that do various things. If anyone feels like offering any insight into the kinds of things their business objects do besides s ...Show All

• IRL11 Any books to recommend?

  The books that work well with .Net 2.0 for enterprise patterns The P&P books have been very useful. Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .Net: Version 2.0 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735618399/002-5016062-4469632 Also there is a nice collection of tips in this one. Effective Enterprise Java http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321130006/002-5016062-4469632 I have read th ...Show All

• Phil Spokas embedded workflow

  Hi, I am building a .net application which requires workflow to be built. Can somebody help me in jotting down what all .net embeddable workflow are available(i know about skelta and WWF though i don't know which is better). Is captaris and K2 provide embeddable workflow and is it financially viable to use these these tools just for embedding those tools api in .net application. If you can name others, that would be of great help ...Show All

• Peo Player BPEL, XPDL and BPMN

  "BPEL is a standard which supports webservices and system to system applications workflow. For more of a human workflow, XPDL promoted by WFMC is the best." "BPMN is for modelling and supports both XPDL and BPEL. Simple BPEL based modelling tools for BPMS systems lacks a lot compared to BPMN based systems" Please provide me with your comments on the above statements. Also that, what standards are been followed in WF. ...Show All

• Mike Haladjian SOA message design

  Hi, I'm developing a system using web services with SOA principles. But I have doubts about the design of a message. For example, I want to expose a product catalog so the signature of my method would be: public FindProductResponse FindProduct(FindProductRequest request){........} FindProductResponse will return a collection with all the products that meet the criteria specified in the FindProductRequest object. But I don't know how to ...Show All

• ChandraW Advantages of OOP ?

  Hello, Im a fun of OOP designs. I design my bussiness classes when I start a new project. Then maybe I will write mapper classes for bussiness classes to map DB tables or using an O/RM tool or an ODBMS . Think that this project is big one and it has long deadline. You will develop it 2 or 3 years. Requirements will be changed. To develop this project with OOP designs and n-Tier application design is good idea. But I am asking myself ...Show All

• Darrin Dyson seperate rule engine need

  Hi, I need to know about whether there is any use of rule engines like Inrule with Workflow engines. All workflow engines are coming with their own rule engine like WWFetc. So what is the need of seperate rule engine like Fair Issac, ILOG etc. Regards Tic, A good starting point is Sandy Kemsley's column entitled "Seperating Rules from Process" as is James Taylor’s blog - http://edmblo ...Show All

• jelo Design pattern for interactive communications between users

  We have a need for two users to communicate interactively over a VPN connection through a DMZ. We are considering a smart client (internet side) talking to a web server (in the DMZ) talking to a smart client (within our network). Wondered if anyone knew of a design pattern (or any other solution) to this problem. Sorry for the delay in response. The issue with scalability is going to come down to ...Show All

• qrli Guidance Needed on User Interface Process Application Block (UIPAB) - Starting a Open Navigation Task

  Does anyone know of a good existing walkthrough-style tutorial on the UIPAB I've read through the whole reference to the UIP Application Block a couple of times but I'm confused by something stated in the UIPAB reference: Under the heading " Starting and Resuming Tasks " the reference tell you that to start a task you must call: UIPManager.StartO ...Show All

• NiklasL design and maintenance problem

  I am running into a design and maintenance issue. Any comment can be helpful. I am redesigning a auto insurance company quoting system in c# and basically start from a scratch. Each vehicle type will have different pricing, of course. I have a base class – Quote and different vehicle quote type will derived from the Quote, such as SUVQuote, SedanQuote, etc. Ok, here is the problem. The company has many different (the image ...Show All

• Tyler Sample Layered Architecture across Boundaries

  Hi, I would like to know, how separating layered architecture across boundaries can increase performance and scalability. We have a scenario where client insists on the Presentation Layer on a separate machine and the application server on a separate machine and the interaction between them is going to be using Web Services. Web Services are arguably slow and how can the performance improve against having the UI Layer and Business L ...Show All