Inside Microsoft Dynamics® AX 2009, Second Edition

Chapter 1. Architectural Overview

In this chapter:

Introduction

Design Philosophy and Benefits

Application Development and Runtime Configurations

Architecture of Dynamics AX

Application Model Layering System

Application Frameworks

Enterprise Portal and Web Parts

Reporting Framework

Operations Environment

The objectives of this chapter are to:

• Introduce the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009.

• Describe how Dynamics AX applications are developed through application modeling and program specification.

• Provide an overview of the application model layering system.

• Provide an overview of the application framework.

• Explain the design of Enterprise Portal and the Reporting Framework.

• Provide an overview of the operations environment.

Introduction

The architecture ...