In software engineering, multi-tier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application processing and data management functions are physically separated
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WinForm fat client: Architecture decisions: Did I make the wrong ones?
I have a .NET Winform Click-Once-deployed fat client that talks to three databases, 2 SQL Server databases and a Oracle one.
The first SQL Server database, I will call the Master. I wanted add more tables and columns to the Master database but I was…
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Should the configuration of an application be accessed using DAL?
The following definition from wikipedia explains what is the Data Access Layer in a multi-layered application.
A data access layer (DAL) is a layer of a computer program which
provides simplified access to data stored in persistent storage of
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Entities between Data- and BusinessLayer
I am in the starting phase of a new project. Since, I always want to improve myself and try to avoid the mistakes from the past (everyone has some baggage), i looked at the Layered Architecture Sample for .NET. Looking at the data and business logic…
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Multi-tier architecture: Angular, Node.js and MySQL
I'm using angular7, Node.js and mySQLto create a platform, each one of them runs on a seperate port and I'm only using HTTP protocol , I'm really confused if it's a 3 tier architecture (client, web server, DB) or 4 tier architecture (client, web…
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Datasnap server authentication problem with remote database of users credentials
The situation is: Datasnap client connecting to Datasnap server with his credentials. Authentication procedure starts with server makes a request to remote database which holds users credentials. If credentials matches - all good, authentication is…
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Determining "Number of Users below" in a multi-tier member database
I've programmed a membership site for a client within which members join below other users. e.g.
userid | name | subof
1 | John | 0
2 | Joe | 1
3 | Jill | 0
4 | Janet | 2
5 | Juan | 1
6 | George| 2
John and Jill…
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Designing Multi-Tier application to use progress bar
I have a multi tier application in c# that is supposed to perform tasks on a database (If first time use, we may create the database and fill it with some data). When I initially designed the application I didn't account for a possible progress bar…
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How would you call physcially separated UI / BL code in ASP.NET solution?
Chapter 19: Physical Tiers and Deployment on MSDN describes "Distributed Deployment" (see figure 2). All well and good.
In my experience we've always deployed our web based systems as per what they describe as "Nondistributed Deployment" (figure…
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How do you separate a web server and an application server in a practical sence?
I have a 2 Glassfish server and a database server on another host. The frontend is running JSP with some Javascript and the backend is using Hibernate to communicate with the database.
The appserver is very resourse intensive so I want to separate…
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How can the client display the server's progress during a remote DCOM call?
I have an multi tier application witch use a TDcomConnection on the client side and a TRemoteDataModule on the Server side.
I have published a process server, which reads a TSQLQuery.
When I call this procedure from the Client application through…
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Hibernate dependencies location in a multi tier application
I have a specific question regarding the location of the hibernate-annotations jar in my maven project.
My project consists of three modules. The modules Client and Server are both depending on the module Shared. Maven builds two packages for…
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Asp.Net Multi-Tier Architecture Class Library References
I'm a PHP programmer that has applied for an ASP.NET job. They gave me an assignament to make an application (of my choice) that implements a multi-tier arhitecuture.
I have alot of dillemas. As I understand, multi-tier is a concept that doesn't…
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Removing database dependency from 3 tier architecture
I have worked as part of a team on some 3 tier applications for a considerable amount of time. I like this architecture, but in all of these applications I have noticed a heavy dependency of the topmost two layers on the data abstraction layer. This…
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Akka-Java interprocess communication
I have a monolithic Java application (frontend/services) running in Tomcat. I'm trying to come up with a design that will allow me to slowly migrate all the parts of the application as individual tiers to (one or more) Akka actor system(s). As a…
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Copy different files to build directory based on executed Gradle task
I have created a plugin for Gradle to deploy to my company's OpenVMS directory structures, which adds deployDev, deployTest, and, when credentials are provided, deployProd tasks to an application build. I have extracted our configuration files for…
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