While there may be incremental gains from implementing 3-tier client-server apps in a web-delivered model, the real advances will come from doing things differently.

Google Voice Search, which is a feature of the Google Search app, performs the voice recognition for each query on the client-side, while Apple's Siri processes these requests on the server-side.

In the client-server architecture of the World Wide Web, the interaction between browsers and websites is handled through the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). This protocol was introduced in ...

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Instead, developers typically use an HTTP API and JSON to provide the data for apps on the web. That’s why you’ll often hear a so-called REST architecture described as RESTful —as in ...

In this architecture, there is an application running in the client machine which interacts with the server—most commonly, a database management system (see Figure 2). Typically, the client ...

Tomcat vs. Apache web server architecture. Modern software architectures embrace a three-tiered approach to content delivery. The first is known as the client or presentation tier. The Apache HTTP ...

Centura - formerly Gupta - is shipping a development tool it claims will connect Web servers to the majority of existing client-server applications, and introduce a scalable architecture.

What’s new in vSphere 5.5. I’ve mentioned the increased scalability of the vCenter Server Appliance and the improved usability of the vSphere Web Client.

Web 3: HTML5 and Web Client-Server. While Ajax's frequent server updates provide richer interactivity than static web pages, they are rarely capable of being used offline and have other ...