Microsoft® .NET Distributed Applications: Integrating XML Web Services and .NET Remoting
by Matthew MacDonald
.NET Pet Shop
The .NET Pet Shop is another e-commerce and ASP.NET-fronted application from Microsoft that uses more or less the same practices found in the IBuySpy storefront. What makes the .NET Pet Shop notable is that it’s a .NET Framework implementation of the Sun J2EE blueprint application (which demonstrates Java best practices). The .NET version requires only one-fourth the number of lines of code and is reputed to be much faster, largely due to ASP.NET’s built-in output caching features. (Java has no prebuilt equivalent.) Like the code for the IBuySpy store, the code for the .NET Pet Shop is mostly concentrated in two layers: a user interface and a set of stateless back-end components that access a database. The only difference is that ...
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