Hey SVC-BAT is out there!
April 6th, 2006
Don Smith announced today that Service BAT Service Factory is finally a public project. I’ve been part of this project since the beginning of the year and I can tell you that I’m pretty excited about it. Jason Hogg said that this were going to change the way we develop SO applications.
This is a great moment for people writing Service Oriented apps using Microsoft technologies!
First, if you are not aware of patterns & practices latest
activities, let me tell you that they’ve been creating BATs, Baseline
Architecture Toolkits, which are more than App Blocks. They cover the
whole thing! The first one was the SC-BAT (for Smart Client apps using CAB) which was more than successful. So here is the definition:
What is a BAT? A BAT is a collection of various forms of guidance (written
guidance like patterns, reusable code like application blocks,
executable code like reference implementations, and guidance packages
embedded in Visual Studio) to help .NET developers and architects build
a certain kind of application.
What is the scope of Service BAT Service Factory? In short, from the proxy to the database.
Join this project if you want to
- Write Service Oriented apps using WCF or ASMX
- Leverage the best practices and the experience of a 50 recognized experts in the
field (the advisor board) and a group of Redmond brainees - Automate the menial tasks of creating a Service by leveraging the use of GAT
- If you were looking for the Grail on writing backends for Enterprise Applications
- Solve most of the cross-cutting concerns (Exception Shielding, Logging, Versioning, Security, Data Entitlement, and more)
- Align to WCF
- Have great tooling for WCF
See you there!
UPDATE: want to see some early screenshots? look at Edward Bakker post. Christian Weyer also blogged about it.
UPDATE 2: Service BAT was rebranded. Now it’s Web Service Software Factory.
April 6th, 2006 at 3:24 am
Freaking awesome! I just downloaded the smart client BAT yesterday and I’m absolutely loving it. I would sincerely ask that you guys continue to use the same approach as with the SC-BAT because I love everything about it. It seems as if someone at MS finally got the picture on the proper steps on how to “communicate and teach” all of the various design patterns and concepts i.e. define terms, define patterns, provide examples.
I love how the examples are short and sweet and to the point but still incorporate the overall patterns and concepts. I don’t want to be burdened down with learning the business rules of the app. I just need quick to the point relevant examples and you guys came thru on that one. How I wish BAT’s had been around a couple years ago. Keep it up!