Clean Separation of Business Logic from other Layers The NEFS is architectured to help you cleanly and consistently separate presentation from business logic and business logic from the data management layer. It includes a foundation for translating the business logic into business processes that are reusable across multiple projects. The business logic and processes may be invoked through many protocols including RMI, plain-old Java objects (POJO), Web Services, Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) and messaging. Encapsulating Technical Complexity The NEFS is architected to let you focus on the business components of your systems by encapsulating the technical complexities of the J2EE APIs and Frameworks into higher-level APIs and classes. You concentrate on your app and its functionality and we take care of the architecture and infrastructure issues. Complete Extensiblity through SPI-based Plug-ins We implement a Service Provider Interface (SPI) based plug-in design that allows you to override or replace any of our classes through XML or Java. This includes replacing our factories with your factories and our design pattern implementations with your own implementations. Easy Integration NEFS is architected using Java, J2EE and XML technologies. NEFS does not have a proprietary development language and doesn't require a specific Integrated Development Environment (IDE). NEFS fits with model driven and iterative development processes, such as eXtreme Programming (XP) or Rational unified Process (RUP). Key NEFS Architecture Features Design/Architecture Pattern Implemenations Application Integration Patterns Implementations Application Functionality Patterns Implementations Web-services Externalization of Resources Executable Specifications Logging and Performance Stats Business Values Repository Centralized Configuration Parameters Allows production, testing, development modes Code Generation