On Oct 4, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Sayed Arian Kooshesh <koosh...@gmail.com> wrote: > what's the advantage of using a direct connection here vs an rpc call to a > generic handler or other form.
Bureaucracy. ;-) > I would like to hear an argument for exposing your database to the world in > any app. Not all companies behave as you might think they should...and if Product A needs data held in the DB, they can either contract with Group G to get a front-end to the DB running (which may or may not be possible due to politics/etc.), or Product A just bypasses Group G entirely and (somehow?) opens the firewall to the DB. Yes, in any sane world, the DB would be locked behind more firewalls than you can shake a stick at and you'd use SOAP/REST/WCF/JSON/SMTP/whatever to access it -- with decent data validation at all tiers! -- but the world is very rarely "sane." Also, who want's to write all that "plumbing" code for your WCF/DB layer when you can just make the DB world-accessible? ;-) - Jon _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list Monodroid@lists.ximian.com UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
