Web-Based Architecture(s)Until recently, only Web applications were able to publish information to the Web. Today, it is possible to create OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) systems through standard Web browsers. Using Server Side Scripting (such as Active Server Pages), it is possible to connect to other components of a distributed system in the form of business objects on the Transaction Server and to send messages to the Database Server.
In addition, today’s browsers can manage far more than traditional HTML (e.g.: Java, VBScript, JavaScript, ActiveX Documents). These popular flavors of Client Side Scripting allow businesses to create more sophisticated Web-based applications. See also: |
