Enter application servers. Citrix, Windows Terminal Services, and even Mac OS X Server provide mechanisms for accessing applications through a variety of web browsers or cross-platform clients ...

Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s as personal computers became the alternative to mainframe computers.

Current Approach to Application Design Today's most popular approach to application design cannot meet the aforementioned business needs. Most of the commonly used client/server* development tools ...

Client-server became legacy because of the Internet and the web. Client-server applications were built for local area networks using chatty, proprietary protocols that worked in a local-area ...

The big picture: Distributed architectures and J2EE. In the past, two-tier applications — also known as client/server applications — were commonplace. Figure 1 illustrates the typical two-tier ...

Applications run on the client, and the data resides on a remote server. Both the thin and fat clients require individual software licenses. Neither can take advantage of software metering from an ...

We’ll just focus on a typical Web-based interaction between a Web-based client and our application server. From Client to Web Server. When dealing with Web-based requests, before tunneling through to ...

The client application takes the data it receives from the server, displays it, saves it to a storage device, prints it or forwards it to other clients on the network. Server Role ...

AEP Systems is meeting a promise to extend its Secure Sockets Layer remote access capabilities beyond Web-based software to full client-server applications. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about ...

Three-tier Client/Server A typical example of a company datacenter, processing is divided between two or more servers: one for application processing and another for database processing. See ...