20.7. Summary
This chapter covered the various options available to developers in incorporating custom applications into SharePoint sites or building custom applications on top of the SharePoint platform. Developers should consider using SharePoint as an application development platform because it brings so much to the table that would normally have to be created from scratch. Things such as navigation, a granular security model, workflow integration, data storage and CRUD pages, a site provisioning engine, and personalization capabilities — all of this is provided OOTB with the free version of SharePoint: WSS 3.0. Adding MOSS 2007 simply adds additional components that can be utilized in a custom application such as electronic forms (Forms Services) or hooks into other applications (BDC).
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