Client layer

From the top, the client layer resides on an end user s desktop, laptop, or handheld device, which is typically, but not limited to, a Windows PC with a Web browser. Usually a Web-based client layer is called thin client, which is lightweight. The programs that run inside the browser are typically JavaScript, VB Script, Java Applets, ActiveX, or Web browser plug-in. Using a rich client such as. NET or Java Swing is another choice, although this book focuses on a Web-based architecture. 

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Make a layer of business objects. In a client-server system, they typically reside on the server (although this strategy is independent of their location). The business objects correspond closely to the types found in the business model and deal with users concepts, roles, departments, and so on (see Figure 16.5). As the business changes, it is this layer that is updated. 

The GUI is a separate layer. In contrast to an older client-server (two-layer) architecture, the user interface should deal only with presenting business objects to users and translating user typing, mouse clicks, and so on to business object commands. Business rules should be embodied within the business objects. 

Web-based systems offer several advantages over rich client easy to deploy and access, easy to scale (by adding more hardware resources to the application server), and shared computing resources (CPUs, memory, database connections). However, most of the information this book presents is not limited to Web-based applications. It promotes the loosely coupled Presentation Layer and Domain Layer so that business logic can be reused no matter what GUI technology is being used. 

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is considered to be the industry-standard protocol for secure, Web-based communications. A recent version includes data encryption between the server and the browser and its support client authentication. 

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Multi-tier Architecture. An expansion of a client-server architecture to include a middle layer of software. The middle tier may run on a computer different from either the client or server computers. The middle tier isolates the client and server programs, so that changes in either of them do not require corresponding changes in the other. The middle tier acts as to receive, authenticate, and transform data as it passes between client and server computers. To make middle tier software easy to change and maintain, it is often written in Java, a modem object-oriented computer language that is available free on most of today s computer platforms. 

The Drug Information Framework enables developers to build healthcare solutions faster, using the time-tested NDDF Plus knowledge base and critical decision-support modules. The Framework gives developers a choice of technologies and access layers, so it can adapt to most platforms, operating systems, development tools, and relational databases. Application environments can include the Internet client/server networks stand-alone desktops and handheld wireless devices. 

Developers with light-weight mobile devices have not been considered explicitly in our scenarios. Their role is likely to increase in the next future, so that a management layer like ours should be extended to support nomadic clients using mobile middleware. 

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The top layer of the SRS system is where biologists come to retrieve data from the system and there are a number of ways in which SRS can be used. The most popular client is the web client available at numerous academic sites around the world or from a local installation (Figure 1.5). 

Needless to say, there are other ways to exchange data like the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) (15). This standard provides an intermediary object-oriented layer that handles access to the data between server and client. Another recently emerging way to exchange data is web services (16), which will be described later. 

In addition to these application-functional layers, some functions are needed to support interactions between clients and servers via networks. All the distributed software that supports interaction between application components and network software is called middleware. Middleware is a generic term for all the software components that allow us to connect separate layers or components and put them into a complete distributed system. It provides an application programming interface (API) that isolates application codes from the underlying network communication formats and protocols. It also supplies intermediate system services such as security, naming, directory, messaging, and transaction management services ... 

To solve some problems of the two-tier architecture and improve the reliability and performance of the system, a three-tier architecture has been adopted. In a three-tier architecture, the business logic is separated from the presentation and data layers and becomes the middle layer between them. The presentation logic resides in the first tier (the client side), and the data logic in the third tier (the server side), and the business logic in the second tier (the middle) between both tiers. This solves the problems occurring with the two-tier architecture. Figure 6 shows a three-tier architecture where the business logic and some connection functions are placed in the second tier. 

The physical layer includes client devices, server devices, and network elements, including LANs, WANs, computing platforms, and systems and applications software. 

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The common engineering client (CEC) gets its data and business logic from an engineering service bus ESP which builds the middle layer between CEC and the under laying legacy systems (Fig. 21.7). 

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