Pro Scalable .NET 2.0 Application Designs

Building an enterprise application is not an easy task. If your initial design is poor you stand a high risk of your project either being crippled by inherent instabilities or failing outright. This poor design might not be noticed at once, but as time progresses there is a good chance that both performance and extensibility issues will begin to emerge. These issues can be costly to address and are often hard to completely correct once your application has been released. To avoid these problems IT architects and system designers need to have a thorough knowledge of the skills and techniques outlined in this book.§In these pages we give you the benefit of our extensive experience designing enterprise applications. With the growth of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) the way we conceive and construct enterprise systems has changed in recent years. SOA has provided an evolving model for building distributed applications built on loosely coupled components exchanging SOAP/XML messages. This model and the issues surrounding when and when not to use it provides the focus of this text. §This book details the best practices and proven design patterns to follow when creating enterprise applications. No matter what purpose your finished application may serve there are key considerations that you will need to take into account and basic rules you will need to follow in order for your application to operate successfully. It is these rules, patterns and considerations that we deal with in this book. We conclude the book by considering the different database storage designs and SQL Server options that you can put into place to compliment your application code. Finally we include a fully-worked example application to demonstrate all of the concepts we have discussed.