Tom Kim is the Product Manager of Java products at Rogue Wave. Prior to joining their marketing group, he worked for 12 years with IBM and Tandem Computers (6 years each) as a software engineer in the languages and tools area.
As we approach a new century, the Web continues its phenomenal growth rate,
appealing in so many ways to diverse groups of people. With the maturation of
Java, the Web will evolve from stateless HTML pages or cobbled-together
HTML/CGI script solutions to true interactivity and context sensitivity. I
have heard this next stage referred to as "the second Web."
To target the second Web, many people - application development tools vendors
in particular - have concluded that traditional 2-tier, client/server
architectures will not scale well because of the unpredictable number of user
connections and data access and system administration issues.
To address the limitations of 2-tier architectures, many development groups
are moving to 3-tier architectures. This is roughly defined as a presentation
layer at the client tier, a server in the middle and a database of some sort ... (more)
Tom Kim is the Product Manager of Java products at Rogue Wave. Prior to joining their marketing group, he worked for 12 years with IBM and Tandem Computers (6 years each) as a software engineer in the languages and tools area.
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