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Pros & Cons of Designing Application using OOA vs. SOA

In many organization, it is asked how would we benefit by taking this particular approach of Designing and Developing Application. It can be a brand new application or porting a legacy code. In most cases organization wants a quick solution to address the immediate need, some may come back later and rework in a phased approach but some just keep moving with quick and dirty solutions until a situation demand for real upgrade or rewrite. [More]

Abstract Factory Design Pattern

It is one of the highly used Creational Pattern from Gang of Four patterns. It provides a way to encapsulate a group of individual factories that have a common theme. In normal usage, the client software creates a concrete implementation of the abstract factory and then uses the generic interfaces to create the concrete objects that are part of the theme. The client does not know (or care) which concrete objects it gets from each of these internal factories since it uses only the generic interfaces of their products. This pattern separates the details of implementation of a set of objects from their general usage. [More]

Types Of Design Patterns

In Software Development, a design pattern is generally used as a reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context in software design. A design pattern is a template or format for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations. These Patterns are design and interaction of objects, as well as providing a communication platform for elegant and reusable solution. [More]

Multi-threaded Parallel Processing

Many times you come across a situation when you have to execute the same logic across different clients or batch. While running them in simplest manner without multi-threading, your records will be sequentially processed means your process will take longer time to finish. So here is an example to implement Multi-threading [More]

Pros and Cons of Data Transfer Objects

Nearly every developer and architect would agree on the following, though relatively loose, definition of the business logic layer (BLL) of a software application: The BLL is the part of the software application that deals with the performance of business-related tasks. Code in the BLL operates on data that attempts to model entities in the problem domain—invoices, customers, orders, and the like. Operations in the BLL attempt to model business processes. [More]

Data Transfer Objects (DTO) - Business Layer

I will be consuming the data which was returned by Data Access Layer in the form of XML, Dataset, DataTable, ArrayList and Custom (Data Transfer) Objects to populating my Business Object, which will be finally consumed by a User Interface and most likely a web page. In this example, I will use only one class, which will perform the CRUD operation on Customer Object by invoking method of Data Access Layer. Since I have added methods in data access layer to return Customer(s) data in form on XML, Dataset, DataTable, ArrayList and Custom (Data Transfer) Object. No matter in which form data is returned from data access layer, the business object will read that object and consume the data to make it ready for business object caller. [More]

Developing 3 Tier Application in .NET - Part 3

In this section, I will connect Business Logic Layer (BLL) to Data Access Layer and then User Interface Layer (UIL) to Business Logic Layer (BLL).
Note: If you are developing an enterprise application please see my next article on “Understanding 3-Tier vs. 3-Layer Architecture”. [More]

Developing 3 Tier Application in .NET - Part 2

In this section, I will show you how to connect Data Access Layer(DAL) to previously designed database customer table in Part -1. But in order to access the database we will require connection string, so let's define the connection string called “LocalSqlServer” in web.config file. [More]

Understanding 3 Tier vs. 3 Layer Architecture

The terms tier and layer are frequently used interchangeably, but actually there is a difference between them: Tiers indicate a physical separation of components, which may mean different assemblies such as DLL, EXE etc on the same server or multiple servers; but layers refers to a logical separation of components, such as having distinct namespaces and classes for the Database Access Layer (DAL), Business Logic Layer (BLL) and User Interface Layer (UIL). Therefore, tier is about physical separation and units of deployment, and layers are about logical separation and units of design.
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