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difference

Posted by bhuju on August 23, 2001 at 10:55 AM

> Application Server is responsible for handling the business logic
> of the system.In three tier Architecture , the flow is as follows

> [Browser(client)(Presentation)] ---> [Web server(caters to the http request)+Application Server(Business logic)] ---->[database server]

> Now if heavy transactions are involved then we can biffurcate the second Tier which is nothing else then 4 Tier Architecture

> Flow is as follows
>
> [Browser(client)(Presentation)] ---> [Web server(caters to the http requests)]--->[Application Server(Business logic)] ---->[database server]

>
> Regards
> Krishan