So, what exactly is an ‘application server?’ The application environment In its simplest terms, an application server is simply an environment that provides all of the runtime services that your ...

Database vs. Application Virtually all of the paraphernalia of the modern SQL-Server style data model evolved in response to the many-single-users nature of the Microsoft client-server world.

Three-Tier Non-Web Environment An application server in a three-tier client/server environment provides middle tier processing between the user's machine and the database management system (DBMS).

To understand how to do proper application server development, you need to understand how the two basic containers of an application server work, namely the Web container and the EJB container. This ...

2-tier architecture is a client-server architecture where the server is versatile, meaning it can directly respond to all of the client's resource requests. In 3-tier architecture, however, the server ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...