Integrating The Client/Server Model With The World Wide Web

MS Thesis Presentation

Debin Zhang
WPI Computer Science Department
Advisor: Prof. George Heineman
Reader: Prof. David Finkel

PEDS Research Group
Monday, May 5, 1997
11 a.m. - 12 noon
Fuller Labs 246

Emerging in the 1980s, the Client/Server model is currently the most important distributed computing architecture. Since 1993, the Internet's World Wide Web (WWW) has grown at an unprecedented rate. Although the common Web application is primarily the delivery of multimedia documents and information, a paradigm shift is currently underway. Leading-edge organizations are examining the advantages of the Web as a platform for developing and deploying client/server applications.

Integrating the Client/Server model with the World Wide Web combines the benefits of both Client/Server computing and the WWW. The goal of this thesis is to give a survey of the Web-based Client/Server technologies. First, we examine the feasibility, benefits and drawbacks of incorporating the WWW with Client/Server computing. Then we investigate and categorize the major existing enabling technologies. The evolution of Web-based Client/Server computing is divided into five phases. Finally, we try to give guidelines to developers of Client/Server systems for choosing suitable methods and technologies for various situations.

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