I have an existing website with a lot of business logic embedded in the current site.  We have a number of 3rd party web services that we call into in order to pull credit, get pricing, submit to a loan origination system.

With the amount of business logic and service calls that we perform is it even possible to integrate this in a DNN framework?  Would the solution have to sit outside the DNN solution in order to accommodate this?

We would like to use DNN for our business to quickly edit content, create FAQs, blogging, etc., but with the existing site we have I'm not sure that this will be able to be done with our application structure

 

Dave,

as DNN runs under the .Net framework, everything is possible that is possible with .Net. That does not mean that there is an easy way to realize it, but you can write modules, and when you need business logic, you can include this in the business logic layer. The framework offers different ways to access data, the simplest and easiest is DNN 7's DAL2 - I have not too much experience yet, it is using Petapoco's micro ORM.

Anyway, if you use the classic DAL, then you have a Data Layer (the so called "Sql Data Provider") and a Business Layer (which normally consits of an "Info" and a "Controller" object). You can place your business logic there.

And if you want to consume data from other web services, you can implement the data layer as a proxy for the web service.

I don't know how deep you have already diven into the .Net framework and ASP.Net, if you need more information, please tell me, so I'll provide you some links. ATM: You find a lot of tutorials and how-tos here in the wiki, the tutorials, the video-library and the blogs.

Best wishes
Michael

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