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Client Server Architecture

This document discusses client-server architecture and its basic terms. It describes the three main components of application logic in client-server systems: the input/output presentation logic, processing logic, and storage logic components. It also discusses three-tier architecture with thin clients, and some advantages of three-tier architectures such as scalability, technological flexibility, and long-term cost reduction. Middleware is described as software that allows applications to interoperate, and some examples of database middleware are provided.

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Client Server Architecture

This document discusses client-server architecture and its basic terms. It describes the three main components of application logic in client-server systems: the input/output presentation logic, processing logic, and storage logic components. It also discusses three-tier architecture with thin clients, and some advantages of three-tier architectures such as scalability, technological flexibility, and long-term cost reduction. Middleware is described as software that allows applications to interoperate, and some examples of database middleware are provided.

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Client-Server Architecture

Sindhuja P N

Basic Terms
Client Workstation (usually a PC) that requests and uses a service Server Computer (PC/mini/mainframe) that provides a service. For DBMS, server is a database server Operate in a networked environment Processing of an application distributed between front-end clients and back-end servers Clients and servers can reside in the same computer, or they can be on different computers that are networked together

Application Logic in C/S Systems


Presentation Logic
 

Input keyboard/mouse Output monitor/printer

GUI Interface

Processing Logic
  

I/O processing Business rules Data management Data storage/retrieval

Procedures, functions, programs

Storage Logic


DBMS activities

Three components of Application Logic


Input output or presentation logic component
responsible for formatting and presenting data on the users screen (or other output device) and managing user input from keyboard (or other input device)

Processing component logic


handles data processing logic (validation and identification of processing errors), business rules logic, and data management logic (identifies the data necessary for processing the transaction or query)

Storage component logic


responsible for data storage and retrieval from the physical storage devices DBMS activities occur here

Three-Tier Architecture
Client Application server Database server
Data storage GUI interface (I/O processing)

Browser Web Server DBMS

Thin Client


PC just for user interface and a little application processing. Limited or no data storage (sometimes no hard drive)

Three-Tier Architecture
Thinnest clients

Business rules on separate server


DBMS only on DB server

Advantages of three-tier architectures


Scalability
middle tier can be used to reduce the load on a database sever by using a transaction processing (TP) monitor to reduce the number of connections to a server additional application servers can be added to distribute application processing easier to change DBMS engines middle tier can be moved to a different platform. Simplified presentation interfaces make it easier to implement new interfaces use of off-the-shelf components or services in the middle tier can reduce costs, as can substitution of modules within an application rather than a whole application

Technological flexibility

Long-term cost reduction

Advantages .contd
Better match of systems to business needs
new modules can be built to support specific business needs rather than building more general, complete applications

Improved customer service


multiple interfaces on different clients can access the same business process

Competitive advantage
ability to react to business changes quickly by changing small modules of code rather than entire applications

Middleware
Software which allows an application to interoperate with other software No need for programmer/user to understand internal processing Accomplished via Application Program Interface (API)

The glue that holds client/server applications together

Database Middleware
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
Most DB vendors support this

OLE-DB
Microsoft enhancement of ODBC

JDBC Java Database Connectivity


Special Java classes that allow Java applications/applets to connect to databases

Processing Logic Distributions


Two-tier distributions Processing logic could be at client, server, or both

Processing logic will be at application server or Web server

n-tier distributions

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