Vista - SOA infrastructure

Hello All,

Current (non-WinFX) service-oriented architectures often employ a
data-transfer object (DTO) infrastructure. Microsoft Consulting Services
provides one such DTO infrastructure. These infrastructures allow messages
passed between client and server to be signed, encrypted, etc.

I am woundering if WinFX will itself provide such an infrastruture, thereby
eliminating the need for these elaborate in-house DTO infrastructures?

Thanks in adavnce for any responses.

Cheers,
Frank J. Reashore, MCSD.net, MCDBA

Vancouver, Canada

Thus wrote Frank,

> Hello All,
>
> Current (non-WinFX) service-oriented architectures often employ a
> data-transfer object (DTO) infrastructure. Microsoft Consulting
> Services provides one such DTO infrastructure. These infrastructures
> allow messages passed between client and server to be signed,
> encrypted, etc.

I'm not sure why signing or encryption should be part of a DTO package. It
should be part of the messaging infrastructure.

> I am woundering if WinFX will itself provide such an infrastruture,
> thereby eliminating the need for these elaborate in-house DTO
> infrastructures?

Well, DTOs still live -- now dubbed DataContracts with DataMembers. But they
are really simply the messages sent back and forth between client and server.
Encryption, signing etc. are all part of an service endpoints binding (and
behavior if applicable).

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
news-reply@joergjooss.de