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# Summary
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The SIF Common Framework abstracts low level functionality that is common to all Agents by means of
an easy to use API on top of the SIFWorks ADK. It adds further functionality behind the scene, such
as interfaces to deal with large data sets, multi-threading, etc. This functionality is fully
transparent to a developer. This allows the Agent developer to wire up the various components of an
Agent (Subscribers and Publishers) in an efficient manner by only writing the minimal amount of code
to have the skeleton of an Agent ready for deployment. Many components and their behaviour are
controlled by a configuration file rather than code. The developer can then concentrate on the
business logic or data access layer to retrieve/store data from/to their system rather then spending
time writing Agent infrastructure code.

For details please refer to the Developer's Guide in the 'Developers Guide' directory of this
project.


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Option 1 - As a ZIP file
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Click on the button marked "ZIP" available from the Code tab.


Option 2 - Using a Git client
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From the command-line type: git clone git@github.com:nsip/SifCommonFramework-dotNet.git

Note that if you want to use this option but don't have the client installed, it can be downloaded
from http://git-scm.com/download.