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VS.NET 2008
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Result
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Built in F5 debugging of services and workflows.
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Create your service, then configure your environment, and then create and code your testharness.
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· Aware Server 54% faster to develop WCF services.
· Aware Server – now prior WCF knowledge required.
· Aware Server treats workflow development (WF) the same as service (WCF) development.
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One click deployment – Any environment.
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Deploy to your machine running IIS.
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· Aware Server is “One Click” deployment of services.
· Aware Server allows you to quickly test your services locally, and then deploy them to be shared with all developers.
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Versioning services and running them side by side.
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No built in versioning capabilities
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· Aware Server will let you easily version and run those versions.
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Provisioned endpoints.
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Developer must create the endpoints.
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· Aware abstracts protocol from the developer and puts it into the hands of operations.
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Automatic service call load balancing
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You need to setup and configure your own load balancing solution.
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· Aware automatically scales your services by load balancing your service calls across all machines running your services.
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Provisioning Conditions.
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You need to setup your service on every machine you want it to run on.
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· Setting up Aware Services to run on one server, or 1,000 servers. One policy will take care of all deployment and configuration for ALL of your servers.
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Re-deployment will automatically run your new code.
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Re-deployment is only local on your own machine.
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· If an Aware Server policy is setup to run your service on 5 machines, when you redeploy that service Aware Server will automatically re-deploy the new code to all 5 machines.
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Provisioning time schedules.
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You would have to code/manage a schedule yourself.
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· Aware Server automatically will run services when you want them to run, where you want them to run.
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Zero configuration.
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You need to know the URL of the machine of the services you wish to call
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· Aware Server was designed from the ground up with Services Virtualization in mind to eliminate service location configuration.
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IIS is not required, Although you can use IIS as well.
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IIS is required to host your services.
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· Aware Server offers you the flexibility of using whatever you hosting model you want.
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