It’s a somewhat broad question, and for that I apologise, however I am struggling to get to grips with an approach for turning an overly complex (read: poorly designed) ASP.NET WebForms application into something more maintainable. I believe it can be transformed into something which is largely event-driven.
I don’t mean events as in the .NET coded event, but the conceptual business process events, such as creating a new customer or completing an order.
In principal, I would like to be able to register a piece of code to be called whenever an event of a particular nature occurs. Ideally, there would be some well-defined mechanism to filter the events, so that the code is only called for events that meet certain criteria.
At present, I haven’t found any frameworks that use this approach, which makes me worry I’m on a doomed path.
Are there any frameworks, patterns or good reads available for how you can approach this sort of design?
Is there a good reason why I should or shouldn’t be attempting a solution this way?
Do you actually mean service bus frameworks?
Here are some of them – NServiceBus, Mass Transit, Rhino Service Bus