Kbase P66786: What is a Client/Server Application
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
09/02/2004 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
What is a Client/Server Application
FIX:
A single application divided into two or more pieces for efficiency. In general, the client piece handles user-interface issues, and the server piece handles database issues. Clients and servers typically run on different computers and communicate over a network, but this is not essential. One server can support many clients. Clients are sometimes referred to as being thin or thick. Thin clients do less processing locally; the thinnest clients might be little more than terminals