N-Tier software architecture can solve the following client/server system issues: scalability, security, fault tolerance and etc. In our previous article "N-Tier Architecture and Tips" we introduce the basic N-Tier architecture concepts and some practical tips. In this article, we try to elaborate a N-Tier architecture sample with ASP.NET MVC3, WCF and Entity Framework. In Java, usually there is a pre-defined way to achieve the N-Tier architecture: J2EE architecture, which uses session bean over entity bean for business and persistence layer, Java bean, servlet or JSP for the client presenter layer, Java Swing, HTML or applet as the client side. Therefore, for J2EE, different application are very likely implemented in very similar ways. However, in .NET, even though there are many tools and features available, there isn't any pre-defined way as J2EE does to guard how to implement the N-Tier architecture. As a result, there are too many inconsistent and existing ways to do this. Some are good; some are bad. This article tries to introduce a decoupled, unit-testable, deployment-flexible, implementation-efficient and validation-flexible N-Tier architecture in .NET. What we achieved here is to put some well-known nice tools and features in .NET together and come up with a workable solution. Because there is too much to cover in one article, we will mainly concentrate on business and persistence layers of N-Tier architecture in our sample solution, but will still briefly touch other layers too. In order to understand better this article, we suggest you to read first our previous article on the basics of N-Tier architecture here. As our previous article, this article is also based on the assumption that a team has a full control over all layers of the N-Tier architecture.


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