In this post we explore the essential components that make up a service application and the relationships between them: servers, services, service proxies, service instances, service applications, service application proxies, and load-balancers. In addition to these core components, we will also explore adding job definitions and databases to the mix.
SharePoint 2010 Service Application Development 101 – Getting Started
In this series, we will explore what it takes to build and manage a custom service application in SharePoint 2010. The most attractive reason to me for building a service application is to logically bundle a set of services and/or capabilities provided by in-house and 3rd party applications and systems within the SharePoint infrastructure.
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