Objectives

Today's companies often look to frameworks in an effort to develop distributed business applications more rapidly and less expensively. Over the past five years, distributed development has evolved to the point that today's vendors can start producing distributed frameworks. This chapter reviews what a framework can do for you, the developer, and talks about the requirements of a basic framework. It also discusses the pros and cons of frameworks.

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