Raymond Mitchell » What are Composite Applications?
What are Composite Applications?

For those of you that couldn’t make it to the SPUGs I thought I would start out with a quick post on what I mean by Composite Applications.  There were two pretty good quotes I mentioned at the SPUGs:

 

“A Composite Application consists of functionality drawn from several different sources within a service oriented architecture (SOA).” - wikipedia (9/30/07)

 

“Interactive tracking, reporting, and data management applications [built] using Office SharePoint Designer 2007 ‘no code’ features.” - Microsoft Office Online

 

The first quote is a little generic but definitely fitting.  The second quote is a little closer to what I’ll be posting about over the next few weeks.  I think of Composite Applications (within the context of SharePoint) as being sites or pages that have one or more of the following qualities:

·         Data - SharePoint List, XML file, Database, Web Service, etc

·         UI that supports interaction - filters, queries, data management forms, etc

·         Reporting - dashboards views, charts / graphs, etc

·         Workflows / Actions - sites or pages that do stuff

 

The next few posts will focus on what you can do with SharePoint out of the box.  After that we’ll throw SharePoint Designer into the mix and really have some fun.

Posted 10-11-2007 7:43 AM by Raymond Mitchell
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Phil wrote re: What are Composite Applications?
on 10-12-2007 2:30 PM

Hey Raymond. I loved your presentation this week on Composite Applications. I'm having some trouble with one that I've created though. When I save the site as a site template and then try to create another instance of it, all of my data view web parts are broken. Throwing some error about data retrieval.

I'm driving myself crazy here. I know this should work. I have no problems with the Fab40 templates. Have you seen this happen before? Am I just too tired on a Friday?

Thanks.

Raymond Mitchell wrote re: What are Composite Applications?
on 10-12-2007 2:44 PM

Hi Phil!  One thing you can check... when you create your site based on the template, are the List/Web GUIDs updating?

There is a post here that talks about replacing the list GUIDs with list names instead: http://blog.solanite.com/keith/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3

Let me know what you find out!

Phil wrote re: What are Composite Applications?
on 10-15-2007 3:52 PM

Raymond,

Thanks!! That's exactly what I needed to know. I switched out all of the SPD assigned ListIDs for the ListName and it works perfectly now.

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