A little update on this project..

I got sick of struggling here so I started on a project that eventually ended up being 20 thousand lines worth of code (11k done by me alone). We now have a foundation to at least start writing newer software with. We've already seen a huge benefit in testing, debugging, and some deployment with this 3 tier architecture with one of our latest projects.

Now it's time to build web applications that will make use of this library through web services, making it a 4/5 tier complete project. A site done with .NET C#/ASP will use a web service for communications on the AIX/Unix library with data transfer objects.

This is starting to become one huge heap of design patterns. But it's really interesting how different the project is now then I had originally envisioned.