A Collection of Capabilities

Barracuda is more than a component view of creating Web presentations. One of its more intriguing aspects is the modular nature of the packaging of the complete Barracuda solution.

Barracuda was designed to fulfill a set of commonly needed runtime capabilities that reduce the need for low-level architecture definition and development. Figure 13.1 generalizes the places where Barracuda offers support during the round trip of an HTTP request and subsequent response.

Figure 13.1. Functional roles of Barracuda development at runtime.

Generally speaking, Barracuda handles both sides of the HTTP equation where common tasks ...

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