Software Development Commandment 8, 9 and 10
8: Design Web-Centric Applications and Reusable Components As in the case of object-oriented programming, not all software architectures are web-centric. With the explosion of the public Internet, corporate intranets, and extranets, however, web-centric software is becoming more universal. This changes not only the way you design software, but also some of the very basic infrastructure requirements. Here are some of the infrastructure components needed for a typical web-centric application: Database server. A web-centric application typically accesses one or more corporate databases. Unlike a two-tiered client/server application, however, a web-centric application is less likely to access the database directly. More commonly, a web-centric application accesses some sort of middle-tier application server containing the business rules of the application. The middle-tier application then communicates with the database server on behalf of the web-centric client. Such a multi-t...