Developing Web Applications

The adoption of Internet standards coupled with the immense popularity of the Web have changed the architecture of distributed computing. The multilayered nature of the Web is an ideal environment for the development of component-based applications. They can be developed and customized quickly, with advanced system services such as database access and transaction processing. System resources can be managed and administered remotely. Moreover, new applications are available immediately, without requiring anything more than a browser on the user’s system.

This section examines the opportunities that the Web provides for distributed application development, and demonstrates how to use Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 to develop the n-tier (also called multitier) Web applications of the future. In the process, the section will introduce client-based and server-based technologies that Microsoft has developed to implement this new breed of Web applications. The section assumes the reader is familiar with software development concepts.

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