Implementation

The BackOffice® Developer's Guide (BDG) promotes a number of goals meant to further good application design and implementation. The BDG's first scenario, the Corporate Media Library (CML) application of the fictional Fitch & Mather Corporation, furthers these goals in the following ways:

• COM-compliant. The objects created and used by the CML comply with the COM standards.
• N-tier (where n>2). The logic of the CML is distributed over three tiers. See N-Tier Development Model.

The other primary intent of the BDG is to teach readers about programming with the technologies of the BackOffice family of products. To this end, the CML application demonstrates the following:

• Multiple BackOffice products. To offer its functionality to users and administrators, the CML uses a number of technologies from several Microsoft® BackOffice Server products. See BackOffice Server and Windows DNA.
• BackOffice logo. The CML shows how to satisfy a selection of the requirements of the BackOffice Logo Program.

This section provides information on all of these goals and the ways in which the implementation of the CML promotes them.

Note  These goals correlate strongly with those of the Windows® Distributed interNet Applications Architecture (Windows DNA) framework. For more information on Windows DNA, see Overview of Windows DNA.