Songhay.WebServices Does Not Always Imply SOAP
In fact, the Songhay.WebServices namespace will feature primitive REST procedures until SOAP is required for interoperability. My attitude about this seems just as “silly” as those early .NET rockers getting into Remoting over SOAP.
This approach means the further reduction of concern for the Songhay.Data.Components.* namespace that was so exciting earlier in this Blog. What we have is a new focus on getting data transfer objects ‘closer’ to the DBMS (which is in line with the new CLR features of SQL Server 2005). This is different from depending on an in-memory version of DBMS in the form of a DataSet. This is replacing the DataSet with XML and HTTP posts (REST). I could have done this three years ago but I could not get the ‘traditional’ Microsoft data-binding story out of the mindset. The XML revolution continues…