Re: What multi-tier components to use

> > While your comment is absolutely correct and I agree with your
suggestion
> > that ASTA/kbmmw started with datasets and RO/DA started with services,
>
> It is incorrect. kbmMW started out as a Remote Procedure Call application
server approach and it still is today.
> As explained to Craig, it just as a service and a set of components that
makes it very good in handling databases too,
> but its not part of the kbmMW core at all. Our Standard Edition of kbmMW
have absolutely no bundled database support.

ok. Well I think you would know better than anyone how kbmmw started out, so
I'll certainly take your word on that.

But I guess the statement "kbmMW is _fully_ service oriented" depends on
what one means by "fully." My experience was that I had to write a series of
IF/THEN statements to use some basic custom services (eg MyGetServerTime,
MyAddNumbers, etc).

So you can develop in a service oriented way with kbmmw, but you are
essentially implementing the service handler yourself, rather than the
framework doing it for you. With RO, you just implement the service methods,
you don't have to implement the service handler itself.

But perhaps this is a matter of perspective. And, IIRC, Roger (or maybe it
was Richard?) had developed a scheme for automating much of this in kbmmw.

As I said, I think most jobs can be done by both products, so perhaps it
boils down to a matter of individual preference.

Lauchlan Mackinnon


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