Windows Azure AppFabric

          

         Windows Azure AppFabric provides a comprehensive cloud middleware platform for developing, deploying and managing applications on the Windows Azure Platform.


          The Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus and Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control together make hybrid, connected applications—applications that communicate from behind firewalls, across the Internet, from hosted cloud servers, between rich desktops and smart devices—easier to build, secure, and manage. Although you can build hybrid, connected applications today, doing this often means you have to build important infrastructure components before you can build the applications themselves. AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control provide several important infrastructure elements so that you can more easily begin making your connected applications work now.

• The AppFabric Service Bus securely relays messages to and from any Web service regardless of the device or computer on which they are hosted, or whether that device is behind a firewall or NAT router.
  
• The AppFabric Access Control is an interoperable, claims-based service that provides federated authentication and authorization solutions for any resource, whether in the cloud, behind a firewall, or on a smart device.