When planning a distributed application that will take advantage of "Longhorn," software designers and developers need to consider both the application's architecture and the way it is coded. Chapter 2 focuses on these two points.
The first section explains the motivation for a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and outlines its fundamental tenets. Software designers should take advantage of the principles behind service-oriented architectures to be better prepared to develop applications for "Longhorn." The second section discusses managed code, which is the preferred execution model for applications that will run on "Longhorn."
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