Top Document: Client/Server Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 2.4 What is a Two-Tier Architecture? Next Document: 2.6 What is Middleware? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge A three-tier architecture introduces a server (or an "agent") between the client and the server. The role of the agent is manyfold. It can provide translation services (as in adapting a legacy application on a mainframe to a client/server environment), metering services (as in acting as a transaction monitor to limit the number of simultaneous requests to a given server), or intellegent agent services (as in mapping a request to a number of different servers, collating the results, and returning a single response to the client. User Contributions:Top Document: Client/Server Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: 2.4 What is a Two-Tier Architecture? Next Document: 2.6 What is Middleware? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: lloyd@abs.net (Client/Server FAQ Maintainer)
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