web-architecture

.NET Entity framework project layout (architecture)

I'm trying to determine how best to architect a .NET Entity Framework project to achieve a nice layered approach. So far I've tried it out in a browse-based game where the players own and operate planets. Here's how I've got it: Web Site This contains all the front end. C# Project - MLS.Game.Data This contains the EDMX file with all...

What are benefits of serving static HTML and generating content with AJAX/JSON?

http://blog.urbantastic.com/post/81336210/tech-tuesday-the-fiddly-bits Heath from Urbantastic writes about his HTML generation system: All the HTML in Urbantastic is completely static. All dynamic data is sent via AJAX in JSON format and then combined with the HTML using Javascript. Put another way, the server software for Urbanta...

How do you structure your website content?

Do you try to keep it simple and have a root folder and then 1 folder for images, javascript, flash, etc? What do you normally call your folders? Do you give your files naming conventions? ...

Web Architecture - Robustness

Hello Architecting for the web, if we have a .NET application that delegates it's main processing tasks to a component (in this case, a COM+ server), what is the best approach? Approach 1 Have the component instantiated many times in the COM+ Object Pool, so that each request uses one of the instances. PROS If any one of the compone...

Building farms with IBM Websphere, IBM Http Server, Load Balancer (or Dispacher)

Do you know a web page or pdf or any books to learn how to architecture these products to create a farm? Also any generic web application farm architecture best-practices source is appreciated ... I would like to learn about highly available and scalable web architecture especially using IBM products... ...

Web architecture: MVC, Lazy initialization, Data transfer Objects, Open Session In View, is there a concensus approach?

What flaws do you see in the following design, (and what would be your ideal architecture suggestion) for a typical web 3-tier application? My current blueprint approach is very roughly this (assuming Java, Spring, Hibernate, JSP) Controller Stateless, potentially wrapped with a read only transaction (to avoid lazy init exceptions),...

routing mvc on the web

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could possibly provide me some advice on how i could improve the routing (and/or architecture) to each 'section' of my application. (I'm writing in PHP5, and trying to use strict MVC) Basically, I have a generic index page for the app, and that will spew out boilerplate stuff like jquery and the css etc. ...

Web application architecture in a web farm

I know there are a some changes to a web application when moving from a single web server to two, or more, web servers. But architectually, are there any other changes to consider when adding more servers to the farm? I understand deployment would become more complex with more servers in the farm. I ask because a while ago during an in...