Why use Sharepoint for Application Development? Part II

Application Development in Sharepoint hardly requires any coding. Why? See the following list:

• Entities - these get created as "Content Types" in WSS and require no coding.
• Metadata - these get created as "Site Columns" in WSS and get bound together as "Content Types". No coding.
• Database - WSS automatically stores all metadata in its own database without the need to create additional structures. No coding
• Connections - connections to the database handled by the WSS provisioning engine. No coding.
• Security - this is handled by WSS through NTLM, Kerberos, SSO or "Forms Based" authentication. No coding
• Authentication - this is done by IIS and WSS. No coding
• Optimising - WSS has built in caching components that can be configured using the browser.
• Scalability - the topology of WSS allows it to scale out into a farm configuration. All web pages are stored in the database as metadata and can therefore be rendered from any amount of WFE's.
• Auditing - WSS has built in audit trails.
• Web page builds - the provisioning engine of WSS creates web page on the fly without the need of coding them. The layouts can be controlled using the browser or SPD.