Architecture of Web-based systems

Activity;

· Generally computing applications consist of three different and distinct types of functionalities. What are these?

· There maybe many variations of web-based systems architecture. What are the different types (the various ways we can distribute) of client-server architecture?

· If we have a multi-tier application, how do you decide on the functionality of the various tiers?

· What are the example of applications that are suitable for the following architectures?

· Client-server

· Peer-to-peer

· Is there an advantage to increase the tiers to say 4?

· There are the notions of thin and fat clients. What are the thin and fat clients? How do these affect the architecture? What does the architecture look like?

· What are the middle tiers? What are their functionalities and advantages?