2007 Reports

Whitepaper: The Value of Improving the Separation of Concerns

Eaddy, Marc; Cyment, Alan; Laar, Pierre van de; Schmied, Fabian; Schult, Wolfgang

Microsoft's enterprise customers are demanding better ways to modularize their software systems. They look to the Java community, where these needs are being met with language enhancements, improved developer tools and middleware, and better runtime support. We present a business case for why Microsoft should give priority to supporting better modularization techniques, also known as advanced separation of concerns (ASOC), for the .NET platform, and we provide a roadmap for how to do so.