Implementing SOA with .NET 3.5 using ASP.NET + WS + WCF + WWF in N-tiers

Next, I’m going to explain  how to implement SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) in N-tiers using only Visual Studio 2008 (without BizTalk Server or another service-orchestration-server).

We’re going to use ASP .NET Web Forms for presentation layer, ASP.NET Web Services for XML-encode layer, a WCF Service (Windows Communication Foundation) - hosting multiples endpoints - for distribution layer, and two class libraries: a class library for business layer and another class library for data layer. In addition, we’re going to incorporate a WWF (Windows Workflow Foundation) monitor for supervise our WCF Service in real-time.

This is the first part of five parts of this tutorial.

(Tutorial in progress, next publication: November 4^th, 2008)