Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

(See Figure 1.) Figure 1. Mainframe Architecture In the 1980s, the arrival of inexpensive network-connected PCs produced the popular two-tier client-server architecture. In this architecture, there is ...

A two-way interaction in a client/server environment, in which the user interface is stored in the client and the data are stored in the server. The application logic can be in either the client ...

Client-server evolution Two-tier client-server: Popular in the early 1990s ... draw functionality from servers in the form of web services. Although this architecture has an increased reliance on ...

A person responsible for performing analysis and design of a client/server system. A knowledge of two-tier and three-tier client/server architectures is required. See systems analyst and client ...