Windows Server AppFabric

The Windows Server AppFabric package provides a set of integrated technologies for building, hosting and managing composite applications that span the server and cloud.
Windows Server AppFabric targets applications built using ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
It provides out-of-the-box capabilities for you to easily build and manage composite applications, including:
- Enhanced design and development tools in Visual Studio to build rich composite applications
- Management and monitoring of sevices and workflows via integration with IIS Manager and Windows PowerShell
- Distributed in-memory application cache to improve application performance
Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1 is available now for developers to start building their next-generation composite applications, and for administrators to host and manage them. It integrates technologies previewed as code name "Dublin" and code name "Velocity".System requirementsHardware requirements :
Minimum Hard Disk Space: 2GB
Computer with an Intel Pentium-compatible CPU that is 1 GHz or faster for single processors; 900 MHz or faster for dual processors; or 700 MHz or faster for quad processors.
Prerequisite software :
Install the following pre-requisite software; if this software is not already installed, install in the order presented below:
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7
For Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2 users the following IIS hot fixes:
KB 970772 – IIS Hotfix
KB 970773 – IIS Hotfix
IIS Web Deployment tool
PowerShell V2 RC (this is not required for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users)