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Smart Clients: Essential Requirements and Candidate Services

Overview The architecture and design of smart client solutions begins with a comprehensive understanding of the unique requirements for this versatile model that leverages the rich and dedicated resources of the user's own computer and, when connected, the far reaches of the network. Drawing on the experiences of an international and independent group of architects who build smart client and Web-based applications on heterogeneous platforms for several diverse markets, the authors catalog several major requirements unique to smart client applications and the personal devices that host them. The requirements identified are considered essential yet common to a broad range of smart client applications, and for each requirement the authors suggest one or more provisioning strategies called candidate services.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	August 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture

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