If you wish to flame me... please give me the courtesy and send me the flame mail directly... :)

Seriously, I did not give John a cookbook answer. Rather, I just made the point that n-tier apps are all about design, not so much the tools. To say that small apps/companies could not achieve the benefits of n-tier design is flat out wrong. Also, to say that all n-tier apps are complex is also flat out wrong.

And no, there is NOT only one right way to solve a problem...

>>Could be, did not go back far enough. But honestly and with all due respect? They both gave you eighter answers straight out of the manual, or they redefined the problem. And even if you _were_ allone in you situation, which I can assure you, you are not, and their methods would not apply to you, then should they not acknowledge that fact and say so ... in a loud and clear voice? So that we could come to a better definition of what they imply and come to a kind of a taxonomy of cases where sets of rules apply and others do not.

But unless I did not listen well, that is not what they do: they want us to think that it is the only right way where I think that it can be demonstrated that there is no theoretical basis for n-tier as defined, and that in a lot of cases it is not the desirable way
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