Its been a busy weekend for Microsoft. First the announcement that EDM is being delayed six months to be after Orcas...now two new dynamic data access layers for web-based apps:
- Astoria: Expose your data as web services for AJAX
- Jasper: Another RAD solution to Data Access
I haven't looked at either of these *yet*, but I thought it was already confusing...now look a the data access toolbox from MS:
DataSets...LINQ for SQL (Server)...EDM...Astoria...Jasper
I can't imagine that the Data team is going to be able to give good enough advice as to where to use what. Hopefully after I dig in deeper, it'll make more sense.
