Our Preferred Toolkit
Tarantino.zip contains many useful .dll files (NHibernate, RhinoMocks, StructureMap) and programs (NAnt, Subversion) which comprise a common set of tools which Headspring uses for Greenfield applications. Additionally, the Tarantino project contains a database change management system.
A common Headspring .NET application is structured as such:
- Typically, we keep source code in Subversion repositories. NAnt scripts build from the repositories to staging and production servers. In doing so they also update a database at each build locale with any pertinent SQL scripts not yet run against the database. (A progressive history of SQL scripts is kept for each project.)
- Our applications themselves break up the projects within a given solution into the Onion Architecture. The User Interface (front end) references both the Domain (business logic) and the Infrastructure (database integration). The Infrastructure references the Domain (instead of the other way around in traditional layered architecture) leaving the Domain as the autonomous, independent center of the application. Domain objects are loosely-coupled to counterpart data managers in the Infrastructure by way of StructureMap.
- Separate Unit Test and Integration Test projects exist for both the Domain and the Infrastructure. Objects are often mocked in tests using RhinoMocks.
- NHibernate is used for database integration.
A glimpse at Tarantino database management: