Microsoft® .NET Remoting

Benefits of Distributed Application Development

Because you’ve chosen to read a book on .NET Remoting, you probably have some specific scenarios in mind for distributing an application. For completeness, we should mention a few of the general reasons for choosing to distribute applications.

Fault Tolerance

One benefit of distributed applications—which arguably is also one challenge of using them—is the notion of fault tolerance. Although the concept is simple, a wide body of research is centered on fault-tolerant algorithms and architectures. Fault tolerance means that a system should be resilient when failures within the system occur. One cornerstone of building a fault-tolerant system is redundancy. For example, an automobile has two headlights. ...