Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

chadb — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:20:00 GMT

I'd like to know more about the business functionality behind MBF and what ISV's can do (or will be able to do) to extend it/integrate with it... Any pointers there?

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Kevin Ransom — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 04:54:00 GMT

The Framework is designed to be very flexible with a large number of extension points. Many of our primary use cases are driven by ISV and System Integrator extensibility

To give you some brief examples:
An Entity can be (rather simplistically) thought of as an object that can be persisted and retrieved from a Database.

An operation represents some substantial piece of business logic, "Create new customer", "Validate credit references", "Produce packing list", could be examples of operations.

A Collaboration can be thought of as some code that can be used to perform a specific calculation against some fields on an Entity or Operation.

An ISV could produce an application that included a Full suite of Entities, Operations and Collaborations. It would undoubtedly also have UI, Web Services, Security and lots of other pieces that MBF helps with.

A third party ISV might have a customer who's requirements were nearly matched by the original ISV application. He could then licence the original application and independently, without needing access to the source code specialize or extend it's Business logic to suite the exact requirements of the third party ISV, by extending the operations and collaborations.

Future articles will delve into specific details of our development model, and those discussions will naturally cover extensibility.

I hope this helps

Kevin

Why XML Serialization

dcl — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:37:00 GMT

What is different about the work you are doing in XML serialization?

Why would I use it versus the many other capabilities that are available to me?

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Kevin Ransom — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 06:48:00 GMT

That is a good question and the reason I wanted to make it the subject of my next Art. The XmlSerialization that we are doing is about making Business Entities compatible with the .Net XmlSerializer rather than producing yet another serialization API.

As they stand Entities would not serialize with the .Net Serializer, so we have used extension mechanisms built in to the XmlSerializer that allows the .Net XmlSerializer to hand off the serialization work to us.

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Christian Nagel's OneNotes — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:02:00 GMT

how exactly will remoting work based on the agent service pattern?

dt — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:15:00 GMT

It would be helpful to understand how exactly one can remote an agent and how that supports an SOA architecture with its services and the tiers (workspace and service).

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Mehran Nikoo — Sat, 28 Feb 2004 16:00:00 GMT

All of the items you mentioned are nice stuff. In terms of the end result, how do is map to Whidbey? All these features can be part of the development environment e.g. Whidbey.

Maybe this question is silly but what is MBF? Is it a product? Guidelines? both...

Pre-Alpha Program

Damir — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:53:00 GMT

Do you plan to start any pre-alpha program? Damir, Microsoft Regional Director Germany

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Christophe Lauer — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 12:49:00 GMT

Hi Mehran,

for a high level overview of what MBF means, you can have a look at the slides of a MBF session from PDC03:

http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/DAT/DAT340_files/Botto_files/DAT340_Brookins.ppt

Hope this Helps,
CL

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Peter Morris — Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:19:00 GMT

I am very interested in Model Driven Architecture in general, I have been developing Win32 apps using MDA for a couple of years now.

I'm just wondering how much chance there is of me being included on a beta programme so that I can offer feedback and also get a feel for how the framework works?

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Dietrich Birngruber — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 16:19:00 GMT

Hi

I ask you as a technician: How is MBF related to "other" business frameworks? As we all know, some of them “were not so successful” (e.g. Taligent ...).
Anyway, if I look at MBF from 10.000 miles above the ground it looks interesting. I am curious to see how MBF evolves – and of course to read your next blogs ;-)

Thx + Regards,
Dietrich B.

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

uzi — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:40:00 GMT

Is it possible to develop Payroll system?

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Kevin Ransom — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:44:00 GMT

Yes it is extremely important for us that our framework will be able to develop applications similar to a Payroll system.

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

uzi — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:43:00 GMT

We have a Payroll systemb with few hundreds customers.
We like to think about the next generation.
can you provide us an immediate map how to program it.

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Stephen Girolami — Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:28:00 GMT

As an ISV, we have many customers with varying deployment needs. Will the MBF place any restrictions on the deployment of an application? (e.g. smart client)

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Chris Garty — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:43:00 GMT

It is a pity that some of the base classes haven't been released with Whidbey.

We are starting our next phase of development in Whidbey and want to leverage MBF when it is released as well.

Hopefully it won't be too hard to refactor our architecture to work with MBF. If you could provide some architectural guidance for use with MBF it could make those future changes much simpler.

- Chris

Alpha/Beta Program

Tomislav Bronzin — Sat, 08 May 2004 21:23:00 GMT

As a Damir Tomicic I am also interested in been envolved in Alpha/Beta program!

Could you tell us more about this possibility?

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Lalit Khatter — Tue, 11 May 2004 09:27:00 GMT

Hi!

Can we get detail information about the MBF? I have keen interest in understanding this new tech to me--I recently heard about this--.
you can send details to me at my mailbox i.e. lalit_khatter@hotmail.com
thanks
Lalit

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Raju Ganapathiraju — Mon, 24 May 2004 21:19:00 GMT

Hi,

Is it similar to Oracle's ADF (Application Development Framework or BC4J). Why not then license Oracle ADF and gain some advantage! They are already ahead in this area by about 5 years.

Thanks, Raju

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Simon Mourier — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 11:45:00 GMT

Kevin, I am curious about the "extension mechanisms built in to the XmlSerializer" that you quoted back in february. Are you talking off the whidbey timeframe? Because, right now, XmlSerialization is very very limited and really imposes huge tweaks to a businss model (you need a public parameterless constructor, collection need to have Add, IXmlSerializable is undocumented and dataset-hardcoded, ...).

re: Developing the Microsoft Business Framework

Bias Fortes — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 19:31:00 GMT

Please, could you talk about the Remoting and Enterprise Services integration with MBF ?

How will Remoting and Enterprise Services works with MBF ?

People are saying that Remoting is going away... Is it true ?

Best Regards,
Bias Fortes

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