Web Applications

Abstract

A new term has entered the IT vocabulary in the past few years: Web application. It seems like everyone involved with business software systems has plans for building Web applications, with many nonbusiness software efforts as well. For many early adopters of this architecture the term Web application, like the systems themselves, have evolved from small successful Web site add-ons to robust n-tiered applications. It’s not uncommon for a Web application to service tens of thousands of simultaneous users, distributed all over the world. Designing Web applications is serious business.