Tuesday, November 18, 2008

SOFTWARETEAMS now in Quatres Bornes

Since October, our company has been operating under a new brand. SOFTWARETEAMS now located in Quatres Bornes and together with new partners is now well in place and hopefully our major projects will kick off soon. I have been busy for the past month or so in the set up of our new infrastructures both here and in Denmark. University assignments and class tests have also been taking a lot of my precious time. Now that all of that are behind me I will be able to post some of my findings here.

Throughout the past month, I have mainly been focusing on some research into performance issues with Entity Framework. Having worked with Hibernate for the past two years, the amount of problems I have had with this framework with regards to concurrency, performance and other bottlenecks have only been discouraging. To workaround these problems, I have even developed, with the help of my team of course, an in-house ORM solution (TinyORM) for the needs of the CBS Housing Project. I don't want to repeat the same mistakes and throughout the various reviews and comments I have been looking, most of the conclusion sees to indicate that Entity Framework though promising is not there yet ! Instead, they recommend using LINQ to SQL Classes. So here I am now trying to implement a Generic Data Access Layer with LINQ SQL. My next post will discuss the architecture and implementation issues. Stay tuned !

 

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