In today's business environment, organizations need the ability to quickly and securely integrate with an ever-changing set of business partners. Successfully exposing local services to other departments or entire organizations can require a Herculean effort of networking and security. How can you securely expose services that are buried deep behind firewalls and network routers? What measures can we take to avoid a brittle security model that falls apart when partners are added or a situation changes? It is possible to build this type of distributed application today, but it requires a significant investment in infrastructure and multiple concessions by all parties involved.
In this chapter we will cover:
What is included in Microsoft's cloud computing integration platform named Windows Azure AppFabric
The problems that AppFabric Access Control services and the AppFabric Service Bus are intended to solve
How to leverage...