Placing webservice between CS site and CS database

Question

Hi,

I have installed CS 2007 and created a new site. My site architecture is like

My site -----> CS Database

But I want to create a site like this

My site -----> Web service --------> CS Database

I want to remove the all references of CS from My site and put it in on Web service. Then after if I want to do any transaction like getting values from catalog or profile creation or login it has to go like,

My site --> Web service call --> Check CS references ---> Get values from CS database.

Can any one hlep me is it possible to do?

If yes, Please help me how to proceed?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Sakthivel.S

Answer 1

Hi Sakthivel

Don't think you are on to a valid architecture here. Putting a web service in front of your database will not give you a performant architecture. CS2009 abstracts all calls to the CS subsystem, using an entity model, and although you have not explained your needs, I am sure this will give you a much more future proof direction to go and the level of abstraction you need.

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Hope this helps.

Regards

Glen (Software) Smith
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CS2007 book: http://www.software-smith.com/csbook

Answer 2

Hi Sakthivel,

Distributed architecture is a feature of Commerce Server 2009 R2, which is currently avialable on CTP from MS Connect. One of the core features is the abstraction of the application layer so it can be exposed through WCF services, while still maintaining business logic for the Commerce application. 

If you are currently not tied to the 2007 licence, I would advise you explore this version of the product as it would better suit your needs.

Thanks,
Lewis

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Answer 3

Sakthivel,

I have done similar stuff where commerce server business calls are wrapped with WCF/web services (recommend WCF) and front end application (ASP.NET & Silverlight) consume them and the similar stuff is implemented in CS2009 R2. There will be little overhead on performance but the advantage we get is logical separation of layers and the other advantage we get is that we can write our custom web services which can be developed as per our UI requirements (not generic - this is very important) and can be tweak to get more performance.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
-Ravi Kanth Koppala

 

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