Re: Architecture-switch to Web Services; newbie needs advice

From: CBFalconer (cbfalconer_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:36:43 GMT

Ney André de Mello Zunino wrote:
>
> Firstly, a bit of background information: I am involved in the
> development of a relatively small distributed application which, in
> short, deals with the remote editing and maintenance of some conceptual
> graphs (the very domain being irrelevant). For many reasons, including
> personal preference and motivation, I had set two main constraints for
> the choice of technologies to be employed: they ought to be both *free*
> and *portable*. This led me to the gathering of the following tool set:
>
> * C++ as the programming language for all tiers
> * Ice [1] as the communication framework
> * MySQL [2] as the database backend
> * MySQL++ [3] as the API to the database backend
> * Gtkmm [4] as the UI toolkit for the clients
>
... snip ...
>
> So, here I am, under a drive to go for an alternative solution. I spent
> some time looking around yesterday and doing some thinking and here is a
> basic summary of the new architecture I envisaged:
>
> * Build the middle-tier as a Web Service
> * Build the client application with C# and Windows Forms on Visual
> Studio .NET 2003
>
> I am aware that I am giving up some virtues with these new choices. The
> goal is to be able to rely on better-supported tools in order to
> complete the development timely. On the other hand, I have several
> questions I would like to have clarified:

I doubt very much that you will find any documentation or usage
improvement by jumping on the Microsoft bandwagon. In fact, you
will probably find less. In the opensource world many developers
are willing to explain and even modify facets of their packages.
Microsoft is most likely to leave you floundering through the
incomprehensibilities of MSDN. Volume does not make clarity.
Meanwhile you have totally abandoned your freedom of choice, and in
fact are likely to find that packages you have come to rely on are
no longer available, or no longer work on later OSs. 

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