WINDOWS SERVER APPFABRIC 白皮书
One of the great truths of building software is this: Application developers shouldn’t spend their time creating infrastructure. Even though every application needs some supporting services, the people who write those applications ought to focus solely on creating value for their users. Whatever infrastructure is required should be provided by the platform they’re building on.
Given this, one way to improve a platform is to provide better application infrastructure. This is exactly the goal of Windows Server AppFabric. By providing a set of extensions to Windows Server, Microsoft aims at making it easier for Windows developers to create faster, more scalable, and more manageable applications.
The first release of Windows Server AppFabric has two parts:
AppFabric Caching Services, which can speed up access to frequently accessed information such as session data used by an ASP.NET application.
AppFabric Hosting Services, making it easier to run and manage services created with Windows Communication Foundation, especially those built using Windows Workflow Foundation.
Windows Server AppFabric is provided as extensions to the Application Server role of Windows Server, and an application is free to use its parts separately or together. This introduction looks at both, describing what each one does and how it can be used.
