Interesting

I have been developing application frameworks for several years. This book is a good read about them. It covers many of the issues related to application frameworks including class factories, configuration and security. Each chapter contains information about the 'theory' related to these topics and information about the .Net implementation. I learned about .Net classes I was not aware of.
Although I recommend reading the book, I want to warn potential readers about two issues:
- The book ignores some aspects of application frameworks. Missing for example is logging, which is very important in practice. Users of your framework will want to monitor it and logging will be an issue you have to deal with.
- Sometimes the author is more concerned with showing a clever implementation than a practical one. I find the hierarchical cache interesting but in practice there are bigger issues: how efficient is the cache (creating the xml document seems a performance killer), how are cached elements evicted (this brings issues about timing and locking that are ignored in the book), etc. Similarly, I have rarely seen the need for all the configuration-based customization that the author shows. I would have appreciated if each chapter discussed the goals of the implementation (e.g., performance vs. ease of use) and its trade-offs.
I recommend the book but think twice about your goals before copying the implementation.

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• Useful book!
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• Overall Good Reading