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Folks; sorry if maybe this is a stupid question, nevertheless so far I don't know of any smarter way to answer this: Being a Java EE developer most of the time (and, for that matters, focused on the server / backend infrastructure side of the game), I just happened to have a look at Mono a few days ago, mainly out of personal interest. However, so far I feel pretty much "lost" in here, mostly lacking experience and knowledge regarding general concepts in the "server sided Mono" world. Maybe someone could enlighten me here a bit: - In Java EE, I am sort of used to write code, pack both my compiled code and additional resources (images, XML, whatever) into a .war or .jar file and have this deployed to my application server, same way being capable of undeploying / replacing it in case I changed something or just want the application to be removed altogether. As this has proven to be rather useful (both in terms of reducing server downtime and, of course, in terms of providing an application as an "independent package" easily to be dumped to some running server), I wonder whether the Mono / .NET world offers a similar concept? - In most situations, I try my best to keep things separated, in most cases making use of EJBs (or Spring beans) for backend / business logic and something like JSPs, JSFs, ... for providing user interfaces. (How) Can I have a separation of concerns like this in a Mono based server sided application? Talking about this, does anyone have any experiences using the Springframework.NET atop Mono? - Talking about database integration, does Mono offer features like O/R mapping or container managed persistence to store / retrieve domain objects off a backend database system? Furthermore, does Mono know about something like an "application server" in the Java EE terminology (as a container providing support for things like persistence, transaction, messaging, ...)? - Generally, are there any tutorials or comparisons addressing these questions out there on-line? Sorry to bother you with this, and thanks in advance for any replies. Best regards, Kristian _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - Mono-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list