The Windows Server AppFabric package provides a set of integrated technologies for building, hosting and managing composite applications that span the server and cloud.
Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite applications, including:
- Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications
- Management and monitoring of sevices and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell
- Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance
Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 is available now for developers to start building their next-generation composite applications, and for administrators to host and manage them. It integrates technologies previewed as code name "Dublin" and code name "Velocity".
Requirements:
· Hardware requirements :
· Minimum Hard Disk Space: 2GB
· Computer with an Intel Pentium-compatible CPU that is 1 GHz or faster for single processors; 900 MHz or faster for dual processors; or 700 MHz or faster for quad processors.
· Prerequisite software :
· Install the following pre-requisite software; if this software is not already installed, install in the order presented below:
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
· Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
· Internet Information Services (IIS) 7
· For Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2 users the following IIS hot fixes:
· KB 970772 – IIS Hotfix
· KB 970773 – IIS Hotfix
· IIS Web Deployment tool
· PowerShell V2 RC (this is not required for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users)
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Read-Through/Write-Behind:
· This allows a backend provider to be used on the cache servers to assist with retrieving and storing data to a backend, such as a database. Read-through enables the cache to "read-through" to a backend in the context of a Get request. Write-behind enables updates to cached data to be saved asynchronously to the backend.
Graceful Shutdown:
· This is useful for moving data from a single cache hosts to rest of the servers in the cache cluster before shutting down the cache host for maintenance. This helps to prevent unexpected loss of cached data in a running cache cluster. This can be accomplished with the Graceful parameter of the Stop-CacheHost Windows PowerShell command.
Domain Accounts:
· In addition to running the AppFabric Caching Service with the NETWORK SERVICE account, you can now run the service as a domain account.
New ASP.NET Session State and Output Caching Provider:
· New ASP.NET session state and output caching providers are available. ...
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