Hindsights on WCF

[dee-u]

I am developing an n-tier system and I would want to have the best option
of making it work with MS Platforms and Non-MS Platforms, is WCF best for me?
I haven 't had enough knowledge on WCF so I wish to have your expert advices.
Should using WCF remoting a cross-platform strategy or do I have to employ WCF Web Services?
I 'll be exposing custom classes made in .Net, what would be the consequences
if other platforms would be using my custom objects?



TIA

[mendhak]

I did a bit of analysis on it for one of my projects a while ago. I wanted to use WCF over TCP for the fastest performance. The options were to have a windows service, a console application or use IIS 7. The first two were not acceptable on a production environment, and IIS 7 is only on Windows Vista. We were not prepared to move from Windows 2003 to Vista Server. We'd rather wait for Windows 2008 to be rolled out across the department. My verdict is that we're not ready for WCF just yet...

As for making it cross platform, that really isn't "relevant" for you. Whether you use it over HTTP or TCP, you're still going to need a platform that recognizes those protocols, and of course they do. You will, however, need your platforms to have equivalent frameworks present, I don't know how far Mono has gone towards reaching what .NET 3.5 has to offer.