More Features of the Three Tiers

Middle Tier

Distributed (Pragmatic) Object Web

High Functionality Modest Performance

Java RMI/Jini

XML COM CORBA

Distributed Computing

The “Operating System” level of Computational Grids, Enterprise Information Systems etc.

Client Tier

Java GUISeamless Computing Interfaces

CollaborationVisualization

Microsoft Netscape Browser battle makes unattractive investment

Backend Tier

Special Services such as HPCC

Instruments Traditional Databases

Can use Java as a Scientific Computing Language?

Parallel Computing

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