4 Tier Architecture for database example

Back End Server: e.g.

Proprietary

Database

Thin Cliente.g. pure HTML viewer

Middle Tier Server with “Business Logic” e.g. map user objects to relational tables as in Java Blend

Java Web Server e.g. with servlet converting Java GUI into HTML

• But Middle Tier can be a plethora of servers linked in a dataflow model

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