>Jim,
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>>>Check out the paper on N-tier development at my web site. It covers some things about the subject.
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>I read your paper a few weeks ago, and enjoyed it very much. I've been meaning to ask you how the approach outlined in the paper would apply to business and/or data object components running under MTS -- I'm referring mostly to state issues.
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>Have you done much with MTS, and if so, did you have to use a different approach to go stateless, or would you use the same stateful approach under MTS?
David,

No I haven't dome much with MTS at all. Yes the design would need to change for MTS because the business object's in the design in that paper are stateful and that won't fly well in MTS. That design would also have to change on a web server implementation even if MTS was not being used because of the statefulness of the business objects. The design approach works ok with desktop based applications though.