Server Based Applications

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Server Based Applications

• Mark Stiegemeier
• Chairman and CEO
• CRISNet by MEGG Associates Inc.

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Server Based Applications

• Client/Server . nTier Defined
• What is a Application Server?
• Scripting and Documents
• Tips and Techniques
• Examples
• QA

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Client/Server . nTier Defined

• Client Server
• Few if any layers between
• Fat Client, Pre-WWW
• nTier Applications
• Layers of Logic
• Client Side and Server Side
• Post-WWW
• Services vs. Servers

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Server Types

• Web Server
• Web Services and Extensions
• Database Server
• Relational Databases (SQL)
• Transaction Server
• Server Based Business Logic
• Queue Server
• Transaction Message Management
• Image Server
• Document Management of large data objects

• Groupware/Email Server
• Mail and Document Collaboration
• Management Server
• Server and Client Deployment and Resource
  Management
• Commerce Server
• Financial Transactions
• Host Integration Server
• Legacy and Foreign Host Integration
• Access, File Print Server
• Traditional Network Access, File and Print
  Resource Management

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Scripting Objects

• Web Applications
• Server Side Client Side
• Fat Client, Thin Client, Intelligent Client
• Java, VBscript, Jscript
• Component Objects COM, DCOM
• Soap, XML-RPC
• Simple Object Access Protocol XLM
• IBM (Lotus) and Microsoft vs. Sun

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nTier Web Applications
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Tips and Techniques

• Leverage Industry Investment
• 1B on W2K
• Web Based or Web Enabled?
• Message Based XML
• Intelligent Client, Version-less
• IP Anywhere, Think Small Pipes

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Examples

• NetRMS
• Police Records and Document Management
• CRISNet Cruiser
• Intelligent Client

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QA

• Mark Stiegemeier
• CRISNet (MEGG Associates Inc.)
• http//www.crisnet.com
• marks_at_crisnet.com
• [phone] x107