n-teir app design using .NET

[Wokawidget]

If you were to have a DLL on a server and a client app running remotly, what method would u use to pass data between the tiers?

MS Msg Queue?
Dictionary Object (replacement for the property bag in VB6)?
XML?

Woka

[Edneeis]

Probably Remoting or a Webservice. It also depends how remote the client is. Are we talking in the same LAN or over the Internet. Freewalls aside either solution would work although inside a LAN you have some different options as well. There is also the ability to Load assemblies from a remote location and have them update themselves but sometimes this can be harder than it sounds.

[Wokawidget]

Not sure if it's a WAN or internet...there is talk of web services...when I say remote, I mean 200 miles away from the server, with an optical fibre connection to the internet me thinks

Woka

[Edneeis]

Then probably a WebService but remoting would still work. The WebService could provide the objects from the dll or pass a dataset to a local copy of the dll/objects.

[biswajitdas]

you can take the help of webservices and WSDL



actually web services give the facilty to achive com implemnt.

with soap and http get.


and u alos writing the code in wsl to make uddi connect

Biswajit das

[Jaiboy]

But the thing is, When you consider about webservices there will be a performance lack. Before moving your code to production, make sure that your code handles bulk transactions and web service is working fine. And you need to write lot of coding to maintain the state of the service.

Performance wise you will feel better in Remoting, but the service should available only in your Intranet (Whereever it may be 200 miles or 2000 miles). In such scenario you can consider Remoting. Remoting supports various protocols.

U can deploy your component in web with Remoting using HTTP protocol also. But there is no significance difference for a WebService & Remoting when you consider HTTP protocol. In this case WebService is the flexible one. If you use Remoting I suggest you to go for TCP Channel.

-Jai