Conclusion

In this chapter you looked at the architecture of a basic ATL Server application. You followed a requests journey from the user to your end application. You also examined some of the major classes and functions that ATL Server provides to make this model work. In addition, you looked at how an ATL Server Web service request is handled, including how a client puts its request together and how this is handled on the server (i.e., where a Web service request differs from any other Web request).

By now, you should have a good understanding of how you can architect an ATL Server application, and you should be familiar with how to use the ATL Server code base (e.g., where to find key classes and methods ), some important overrides , and where to begin your source-code browsing.

Up until now weve focused heavily on the components and architecture of ATL Server. In the next chapter we move on to show you how to create applications that interact with the user.