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- Many organizations currently make use of the Web within three-tier
applications.
- Three-tier design separates presentation of information from business
logic and processing, and separates the latter from the company databases.
- In tier one, "the client" runs a web browser that accesses the company intranet.
- In the second, middle tier, a "Web server" interacts with the company's "applications
server" computer and a "transactions monitor" computer to return information to the
client as web pages.
- The applications in this middle tier feed on the company databases in tier
three: using database connectivity, the Web server in the middle tier calls
directly to the company databases.
Select the numbers 1-4 for detailed explanations.
The use of
the Web in three-tier corporate applications has solved the three
largest problems facing client/server corporate computing in a single swipe!
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First, the "client" - just a Web browser - is virtually universal.
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Second, the distribution of an application to the clients is as simple as clicking
on a hyperlink.
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Third, the company can administer all that code centrally.
Greg Hope at Microsoft notes "The Web is a huge accellerator to the three-tier
paradigm. John Dawes of Netscape Enterprise Server says "You can stage it all
on the middle tier, and it's instantly deployed."
If you need more details on how Rooster Graphics International
can help you make use of the Web while assuring transaction integrity,
security, and workload balancing, please have your organization's MIS
expert contact us to inquire
about our Corporate Three-tier Applications ideas.
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