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The original idea behind the design of my distributed web application framework started from the idea to create a content management system with a generalized compositional design paradigm. In my work at TheStreet.com I designed an ad management system that used the rudiments of this idea, the compositional structure of the design was pretty simple, the ad management tool simply needed to manage collections of advertisements in blocks known on the system as "tiles", the collection of the tile code into groups called "tilex" groups allowed the management of the collection as one, which included dynamic replacement of various strings to match parameters for the pages to which the "tilex" groups were joined. This simple relationship between specific ad management Entities and the associated relational tables, took a month to design and build. Months before I thought of a solution that could use a similar design idea but be generalized to manage any Entity at ...