Is there a difference between WAS and AppFabric

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I understand that AppFabric has both caching capabilities along with hosting WCF/WF services. I have seen Windows Activation Service used interchangeably with AppFabric when talking about hosting services on IIS 7.0

Are both one and the same?

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See msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849.aspx – John Saunders

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No, they are not. AppFabric is built on top of the WAS facilities, but adds a lot more things including better monitoring and configuration tools, good Workflow Services hosting, tracking and reporting for persistent services/workflows and a few more things.