3-Tier Architecture and Thin Clients

3-Tier Architecture and Thin Clients

Post by Gerard Wahalatantr » Thu, 08 Jan 1998 04:00:00



Could anyone please tell me how a 3-Tier C/S architecture could be adopted
within a thin client network?
What are the differences between adopting a 3-Tier C/S architecture using a
fat client network?

Any diagrams or web references would be appreciated!

Thanks
Jerry

 
 
 

3-Tier Architecture and Thin Clients

Post by Dave Levit » Thu, 08 Jan 1998 04:00:00


If your client is sufficiently 'thin' [a terminal, or pc running a
terminal emulator such as Citrix ICA] the user interface logic is not
even running inside the machine the user is interacting with. [Its
running somewhere else].

Scaling to progressively 'fatter' clients, more processing would be done
local to the client, tuned [hopefully] for processor, memory and other
resources as well as network bandwidth and latency limitations. A client
would not need to know how many 'tiers' are on the other side of the
server interface.


> Could anyone please tell me how a 3-Tier C/S architecture could be adopted
> within a thin client network?
> What are the differences between adopting a 3-Tier C/S architecture using a
> fat client network?

> Any diagrams or web references would be appreciated!

> Thanks
> Jerry


 
 
 

3-Tier Architecture and Thin Clients

Post by Thomas Gagn » Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:00:00


As with any client-server system, you have to decide where processing
should occur.  If you were to create a process/data-flow diagram and
separate all presentation from logic for *all* of you software, you
would be on the start for creating a great client-server system that
integrates any weight client terminal, NC, PC, or otherwise.