Exchange & Outlook®: Constructing Collaborative Solutions

The Importance of Architecture

We have spent enough time summarizing the products we are going to work with. Let's change our direction and dig into some of the finer details of the process of collaborative solution development.

Before we go any further, however, it should be stated that the primary goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive reference to collaborative development. One of my pet peeves with other development-related books is that they rarely describe the underlying architecture of the applications that the book describes. Many development books do not address setting up a proper development environment to house collaborative solutions. They often fail to cover issues related to the physical implementation of the products ...