Web Services and Application Frameworks (.NET and J2EE)
Gunjan Samtani, Dimple Sadhwani · Apress eBooks · 2002
Application frameworks are a holistic set of guidelines and specifications that provide platforms, tools, and programming environments for addressing the design, integration, performance, security, and reliability of distributed and multi-tiered applications. An application framework includes presentation services, server-side processing, session management, a business logic framework, application data caching, application logic, and support for persistence, transactions, and security, as well as logging services for applications.