Lehrgebiet Informationssysteme

FB Informatik

Towards a Component-based n-Tier C/S-Architecture

Hans-Peter Steiert

University of Kaiserslautern
P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
e-mail: {steiert}@informatik.uni-kl.de

Extended version of the published paper (in postscript format compressed by gzip)

Abstract:

In times of global competition the companies require business information systems (BIS) supporting global computing in the internet. As internet applications are much more complex than conventional BIS new architectures must be developed. Additionally, new development methods (component-based system design), new middleware (CORBA, Java RMI, message-oriented middleware), and new database technology (object-relational database systems) have become applicable in the enterprise main stream. Conventional client/server architectural models do not cope well with these new trends. This paper introduces a logical architecture for modern BIS as well as a implementation architecture exploiting the new technologies.

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Published in: 3rd Int. Software Architecture Workshop (ISA W3), Orlando, ACM Press, 1998, pp. 137-140.