Chapter 10. Enterprise Services

Enterprise system development has historically been a very time- and resource-consuming process. The development complexity arises from the extra enterprise-level requirements such as scalability, robustness, security, automatic transaction processing, and so on.

The .NET Framework provides many infrastructural services to meet the needs of enterprise systems. This allows businesses to focus on their core competencies instead of building the plumbing themselves.

In this chapter, we examine in detail some important requirements for enterprise systems and the services provided by .NET to meet these requirements.