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• RedRider standards of rule engine

  Can you please help me in understand what all standards are prevailing in rule engine industry. I came to know a few of them i.e. RuleML, BRML, SWRL, though I don’t know all of them. Also that RuleML is a part of SWRL and BRML is a part of RuleML. Please elaborate which of these standards are generally used in rule engines created for .net applications and why. regards TIC Business Rule ...Show All

• Fairy what are available workflow standards

  Hi, I am doind research on workflow applications and tools which help in generating workflows in .net. Can somebody send me a list of workflow standards like BPEL etc. followed now- a-days and which is followed mostly. If you can guide me to some link, that would be of great help. regards bhaskar ...Show All

• Stuman99 Architecture Meetings

  I last joined the Patterns and Practices summit in Redmond , and I think that is a great meeting for software architects to meet other architects and to learn some new patterns and best practices from Microsoft. Patterns is a must know for a software architect.   Does anybody know other meetings and has an opinion about it, I think that there are a few which you must join, one of them is the patterns summit, the other i ...Show All

• Coolcoderz When to factories and interfaces in a component

  Hello everyone. When developing a component should I always handle creation of objects with a factory Should the objects that my component contains always be fronted with an interface For example a component to manage a user account database being consumed in-proc by an ASP.NET web app. Which do you think a better design in most cases for the UserMgr component : 1.) using UserMgr; public void Page_Load { IUsers users = ...Show All

• Nihilists 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

• P.J.Ganesh Datasets as the DAL?

  I was wondering if using datasets/adapters/datatables is a good way to manage my data access layer, or if I should keeping using this generic database library one of my friend wrote. Thanks, John All depends, datasets are like BD in memory, but construct it is quite long. You should use datareaders for readonly data. It should improve performance drastically. Perhaps you could consider nhibernate or something, just to put mo ...Show All

• Ruxo Need help on solution architecture employing BizTalk Server & MSMQ Server

  Hi, I have a potential software project for a large ad composition agency. The requirement is briefly as follows: 1. There will be front offices located in more than a dozen locations across multiple states. These front offices would be posting requirements about advertisements to multiple back office located in some other country. Each front office would have about 10 users. 2. Each ad ...Show All

• Apoorva 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

• Crazy8 Does XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute break the 3rd tenet of SOA ?

  The 3rd tenet of SOA, according to MS, states that "Services Share Schema and Contract". When I use the XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute in my shema, I actually say "when you call me, you will get in response one of the following possible types and you should check yourself the returned value to decide what you got from me". In the SO point of view, does this decleration of "possible" types makes my contract less ...Show All

• Matt Rudder Who needs Architecture?

  http://msmvps.com/blogs/rohanthomas/archive/2006/01/26/81848.aspx Would love to hear your comments... Thanks You will always have an Architecture when your project is done. You may either plan it, or inherit it from the results of your project’s development cycles. Planning gives your project a map to what has been built and a future. Inheriting it, makes your project a legacy application the day it is delivered. ...Show All

• Eugen Ciuta 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

• kokopelli2305 Business Logic Question(s)

  Hi, I believe this is the right place to post this query. I'll give you some background first. I have an asp.net application that accesses business objects which in turn accesses a data access layer to read information from a database, pretty standard stuff!  Most of the pages are simple in that the user can either edit the data or they can't so in the business objects there is a base method that returns a bool for whether to disabl ...Show All

• Jimbo42 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

• TX Gal Define BLL and DAL as static classes ?

  Hi all, I know the immediate answer is NO ! Yea, Yea, I know that if I want my class to be able to inherit from serviced component and be able to work well in com+ transaction I'll need to be able to instanciate an object. But in my case, I have a business workflow layer, which handles the transaction (using the new TransactionScope class - wonderfull class !! try it !!), so I don't see the need to instanciate a BLL and DAL, and they ca ...Show All

• wls SOA Security Patterns

  Hi, I am looking for some guidance on designing security services that can be used on any platform. I already have services that take care of authentication and authorisation, but what I currently have maps well to ASP.net or WIndows clients, it would not neccesarily work well in another client environment. Additionally, with WSE and WCF enabling us to secure the channel between the client and the service, is 'validating' the claimed identity ...Show All