23.6. Process Management
Traditionally, the unit of isolation for applications has been at the process level. A dedicated operating system user process is allocated to every instance of the running application, and stopping the application means killing the OS process. The .NET Framework introduces the concept of application domains, which are new, lighter units of isolation. The CLR allows a process to consist of many application domains, each independent of the others. Application domains thus create a boundary for applications to coexist within the same OS process. Hence, an interapplication method call is made within the same OS process, and that is lighter than making an interprocess method call. Applications can be stopped independently ...
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