.Net VXML Applications and Database Access

[clemouk]

Genesys provides built-in functional blocks within Composer for database access (JDBC and OLEDB)l I would prefer to split out the database logic into a separate data layer outside of Composer. I'm currently writing a .Net 4 WCF Data Service which can then be consumed as a web service using basic HTTP binding and the builtin "Web Service Block" that Composer provides.

I'm interested in hearing how other developers have approached their .Net based applications in terms of database access. Did you use the built-in database blocks or use the Web Service blocks for data access? Has anyone used WCF or Entity Framework to build a data abstraction layer?

Other approaches or thoughts on performance would be very insightful.

Thanks,
Lee