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Some comments on efficient SOA method composition
A couple of posts back I started talking about composing SOAPY operations efficiently, by shipping intent to the service. An interesting debate ensued in my comments: Kristofer (the guy behind the Huagati tools for DBML and EDMX , and it seems a man after Read More...
And while you are at it… why can’t I compose REST calls?
In my last post I asked why you can’t compose SOA method calls efficiently. With REST services like ADO.NET Data Services having nice uniform URLs too, and a model (aka EDM) why can’t I compose those with my SOA methods too: i.e. expounding on my earlier Read More...
Why can’t I efficiently compose method calls in SOA?
Imagine if you have these 3 methods: public Employee GetEmployee(string alias); public Department GetDepartment(Employee employee); public Employee GetManager(Department department); Now imagine if you want to find the Manager of the Department that some Read More...
Maybe there is more
Michel Perfetti , has taken my little Maybe thingie and gone a lot further , by using expression tree re-writting he has made it possible to express this: string code = licensePlate.Maybe(lp => lp.Car) .Maybe(c => c.Owner) .Maybe(o => o.Address) Read More...
LINQ to non-enumerable?
So I was reading Wes' latest post about Monad's a while back (which incidentally is well worth a read, it is the first good explanation of Monad 's I've seen that uses a language I am comfortable with in it's examples, namely C#). Well one thing Wes kind Read More...
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