remoting vs WCF

[Amol]

HI,
Currently we have a client server application workking on teh Socket
programming. We need to change the application either to remoting or
WCF. I need to justify why we will go for remoting or for WCF. I
tried to search on net advantages and disdvantages of both the
technologies.
The application scenario :

1.The client and the server are both controlled by us.
2. The client passes many different requests to the server with
different arguments.
3. Server processes all the requests.
3.If the server fails in any task it has to intimate the client about
a task fail.
4.Client has to many tasks to send to server with different
parameters.
5. Some more code for different tasks will be added on the server.
6.We need a proper logging in place.
7.We deal with lots of configuration files on the server part.

How much code change is needed to switch from Socket Programming to
Remoting .
Will rewriting the code in WCF be the same effor as changing the code?
Please help me on this issue.
Thanks
Amol

 

[Mr. Arnold]

HI,
Currently we have a client server application workking on teh Socket
programming. We need to change the application either to remoting or
WCF. I need to justify why we will go for remoting or for WCF. I
tried to search on net advantages and disdvantages of both the
technologies.
The application scenario :

1.The client and the server are both controlled by us.
2. The client passes many different requests to the server with
different arguments.

WCF service

3. Server processes all the requests.

WCF service

3.If the server fails in any task it has to intimate the client about
a task fail.

WCF service can throw excptions across bounderies.

4.Client has to many tasks to send to server with different
parameters.

You send an object that has poperties for the parms to be passed to the WCF
service, to eliminate many parms being passed on an interface.

5. Some more code for different tasks will be added on the server.

You add a interface to the WCF service and an Operational Contract that
executes a method in the BLL or DAL, since they can sit behind a WCF
service, and you can add as many methods as you want pointed to by the WCF
service interface and Operational Contracts.

6.We need a proper logging in place.
7.We deal with lots of configuration files on the server part.

How much code change is needed to switch from Socket Programming to
Remoting .

WCF has all the commnications factors covered by using WCF Web, TCP/IP
remoting, Named Pipe, and MS Message Queue WCF service types.

Will rewriting the code in WCF be the same effor as changing the code?
Please help me on this issue.

MS is leveraging out of .NET legacy communications such as Remoting, legacy
Web service, etc, etc, which have all been incorporated in the WCF service
types, to make things easier to be use by the developer.

And new .NET technology will be geared towards using WCF. And WCF is kind of
simple to use, when you get a good book that show you the basics. And if you
have database access, then you would use ADO.NET Entity Framework, since
it's an implicit serialized datacontract to WCF.

You may also want to look at Model View Controller or Model View Presenter
design patterns.





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[Michel Posseth [MCP]]

You would bether go for WCF as remoting is a dead end as MS favored the
newer WCF technologies
isn`t that justification enough to choose WCF ?

everything you mentioned can be done with WCF technologies

HTH

Michel