Today we are excited to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric
June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to
build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business
logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows Azure
Platform.
This CTP release consists:
- AppFabric Developer Tools - Enhancements to Visual Studio that enable
to visually design and build end-to-end applications on the Windows Azure
platform.
- AppFabric Application Manager – Powerful, yet easy way to host and
manage n-tier applications that span web, middle and data-tier through the
entire application lifecycle including deployment, configuration, monitoring and
troubleshooting. The Application Manager includes a comprehensive application
management portal that is powered by a REST API for monitoring the health of
your n-tier application and performing management operations on the running
applications.
- Composition Model - A set of .NET Framework extensions for composing
applications on the Windows Azure platform. This builds on the familiar Azure
Service Model concepts and adds new capabilities for describing and integrating
the components of an application. The AppFabric Developer Tools leverage the
composition model to create an application manifest that is used by the
AppFabric Application Manager at deployment time to understand the application
structure and metadata.
- Support for running Custom Code, WCF, WF - Formal support for
executing Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) on Windows Azure and the composition
of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and WF services, as well as custom
code, into a composite application. In addition, it provides enhanced
development, deployment, management and monitoring support for WCF and WF
services.
