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phil241514-Aug-14 1:41
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I've written lots of small applications where I work, developing the databases in SQL Server, which is my forte, and the front ends in ASP.NET. When I've been doing it all myself it's been easy because, as the application developer, I know the databases and have no trouble writing ad-hoc queries in the application or, more often, calling Stored Procedures that I've written, knowing what parameters are required, and so on.

But now I'm embarking on a much larger project, for which we'll be hiring developers to write the application. I'm just writing the database. My plan was to write well-documented Stored Procedures to perform every operation required on the database - inserting, updating, deleting, retrieving records, and so on, and then letting the developers just call these procedures from the application without them needing to know the database's structure, effectively creating an API. If I have time, I also intended to write web services as an intermediate level for them to use, so that they call these services rather than the Stored Procedures. I don't know how much benefit there is to doing this for the core .NET application, but since we intend to also create mobile apps down the line, the same services could be used for those as well.

This morning I've been reading about CRUD and writing RESTful services and so on (not completely understanding it all), and now I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing something. I want to set up an API, so to speak, that will seem sensible, easy to work with and perhaps even familiar to our experienced developers after they are recruited, but since this is the first time I've worked in this way I'm not really sure what they'll be expecting. I want to work in line with best practice to deliver a successful project and an excellent product. Does my proposed plan fit this requirement, or should I be doing something else?

EDIT: Maybe I'd get more useful replies if this was in the Web Development thread? Can a mod move it?
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