Summary

In this chapter, we presented and discussed the Service Consumer - Service Provider paradigm implemented by WEF. In Version 7, WEF has greatly enhanced and strengthened the builders, which support this paradigm. Implementing the Service Consumer/Provider pattern makes the development of applications utilizing WEF not only easier but also well organized.

In addition to the features we have seen on this simple example, WEF offers many other service builders, which enable developers to work separately on the same application. This way, while certain developers focus on the backend side of the applications retrieving and manipulating data, UI developers can work on the UI with stub data and well-defined operations without interfering with the work being done in the backend.