My stab at James Shore´s design challenge, http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Architectural-Design-Challenge.html

Update: James has posted his own view of an architecture for the challenge. This prompted me to refactor my Part1 solution, since I saw I had misunderstood a requirement.

The challenge

Write an application that transforms the contents of a text file. It should read text from an input file, apply the ROT13 transformation, and write the resulting text to the screen and to an output file.

James was looking for an architectural sound implementation.

I took on the challenge and developed a solution using the .NET Framework.

Overall architecture

This is a high level view of the solution. It depicts the application situated in its environment. Questions answered are: Who is using the application/who depends on it? And: What does the application depend on/which resources does the program access?

To view the structure of the application zoom in...