3-tier deployment as Winform & Webform

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3-tier deployment as Winform & Webform

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By Ben Hayat - 1/15/2007

I'd like to ask SF team to evaluate this situation:

a) A WinForm application is developed, and clients are outside of the Database network to connect to directly. In this situation we can use SF midle tier server to create a 3-tier connection between client and database.

I assume, the middle tier server will be located on the same network as the database network and the middle tier can share the company's data to Winform clients.

b) Here is my question: Suppose we develop a WebForm application that will be hosted outside of the company's network (say a web hosting company), however we need the clients using web browser to connect to the same database as the WinForm clients are. (Our common database between the two apps)

In this situation, where shall the Middle tier server (SF server) be located? At the web hosting site? Or still at the same location as WinForm application (At our network facility)? If the latter, then how would the web application talk to the middle tier server?

It would be great to have a diagram of this on your web site as well?

Thank you in advance!

By StrataFrame Team - 1/16/2007

If the database was stored within your network, the Enterprise Server would also need to reside on your network. The ES is hosted within IIS, so you would only need to open up web access to the ES and it would provide a portal for the remote hosted web server to reach the database. Using the ES is the same within a web forms application as it is within a winforms application... you simply use an EnterpriseDataSourceItem instead of a SqlDataSourceItem.

By Alexnaldo C Santos - 1/31/2007

Hi,

Do you have a roadmap about ES ?

Do you have any document that explain how to create a new Data Access Layer ?

I would like to use SF with WCF because I can't change ES or extend it.

Regards,
Alexnaldo Santos

By StrataFrame Team - 2/1/2007

You are correct, you cannot change the ES or extend it. And we do not have any documentation over creating your own DbDataSourceItem class (to handle the DAL), but you can create a new one by copying the source code for the SqlDataSourceItem class and modifying it. The class also handles the dynamic SQL generation in addition to executing commands from the business objects.

By Alexnaldo C Santos - 2/1/2007

Hi Ben,

Do you have a date for release ES or a beta CTP ?

Regards,
Alexnaldo Santos

By Trent L. Taylor - 2/1/2007

The projected release date for version 1.6, which include the ES, is Friday, February 9, 2007.

By Alexnaldo C Santos - 2/1/2007

Great! I will try ES.

Regards,
Alexnaldo Santos

By Greg McGuffey - 2/1/2007

The projected release date for version 1.6, which include the ES, is Friday, February 9, 2007.

Ah...no wonder the developers aren't posting as often as they usually do Hehe