"ronald" <ronald_at_foo.com> wrote in message
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> "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam>
>
> > > Speaking of middleware, J2EE is as horizontal, and
> > > as general, as it gets. Would you care to elaborate
> > > why it isn't "horizontal"?
> >
> > Explain first your claim that J2EE is as horizontal and as general as it
> > gets.
>
>
> Because J2EE can be deployed everywhere where you need
> scalability.
>
> 2-tier (client-server) is not enough anymore, you know. How can
> you achive load balancing with client-server architecture? How can
> you achieve dynamic redeployment (software upgrades while the
> system is running)? Fail-over? Clustering? Message-oriented
> architecture?
Seems to me that that is an argument for n-tier (where n = 3 <vbg>)
architecture 3-tier is not the same as j2ee. Microsoft.com handles load
balancing pretty well on the whole. I wouldn't be looking for J2EE in that
environment.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
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Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 10:47:03 CDT
