Experiences with the Active Collections Framework

摘要

With increased intra- and inter-enterprise collaboration, consistent near-real-time sharing of operational enterprise data is a major problem faced by large enterprises. Shareable enterprise data is typically stored in persistent data stores such as relational database systems, and enterprise-wide applications continually create, retrieve, update, or delete this data. The Active Collections Framework (ACF) was developed as a simple yet effective approach to address this problem by unifying application access to both enterprise data and subsequent data changes through the Active Collection concept. This paper describes practical experiences with ACF to illustrate its strengths and weaknesses in building distributed enterprise applications.