Kevin Ridley

When designing distributed applications, developers typically create components based on required functionality, or related services. Some components will be entirely service oriented, but most will be standard components with a mix of retrieves, updates, and some processing logic. Typically, these components reside in many different packages. As your enterprise grows, more and more components and packages are added, while simultaneously maintaining existing components. The process can get quite complex. One way to simplify this scenario is to reduce the number of components on the server. Since probably 75% of all retrievals done in applications are simple and don't require a lot of business logic, why create multiple components? The answer? Don't. Generic Component I'll show you how to create a single component to handle most of your retrievals and even do updates... (more)

Creating A Generic Retrieval/Update Component In Jaguar

When designing distributed applications, developers typically create components based on required functionality, or related services. Some components will be entirely service oriented, but most will be standard components with a mix of retrieves, updates, and some processing logic. Typically, these components reside in many different packages. As your enterprise grows, more and more components and packages are added, while simultaneously maintaining existing components. The process can get quite complex. One way to simplify this scenario is to reduce the number of components on ... (more)