Web Technologies

Categories of Web Applications

Web Architectures
 Today’s Lecture
• Categories of Web Applications
- Document Centric
- Social Web
- Semantic Web
• Web Architectures
- One-Tier Architecture
- Two-Tier Architecture
- Three-Tier Architecture
- N-Tier Architecture
 Categories of Web Applications
• Categories of Web applications depending on their development history and their degree
of complexity.
• Newer categories are generally more complex, as compare with the older categories.
• Each category has its own specific fields of application.
• These are Document-Centric, Interactive, Transactional, Workflow-Based, Collaborative,
Portal-Oriented, Social Web, Ubiquitous, and Semantic Web.
Categories of Web Applications
 Document Centric
• Document centric web sites are the precursor to web applications.
• Web pages are stored on a Web server as static.
• Major benefit is the simplicity of such Web sites and short response time.
• Examples are static webpage, company website, or simple web pages for small
businesses.
 Social Web
• There is an increasing trend towards a social Web.
• People provide their identity to a community of others with similar interests.
• Web pages serve the purpose of finding related interests, and people with similar
interests.
• Examples are weblogs, collaborative filtering systems, and virtual shared workplace.
 Semantic Web
• Semantic web is easily processed by the machines, instead of human operations.
• It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of
researchers and industrial partners.
• Current developments, especially the increasing convergence of the TIMES industry
applications (TIMES ---> Telecommunications, Information Technology, Multimedia,
Education and Entertainment, and Security) belongs to the semantic web.
• Examples are supply chain management, media management, and knowledge
management.
 One-Tier Architecture
• One-tier architecture has all the
layers in a single machine.
• It keeps all of the elements of an
application, including the
interface (presentation layer),
middleware (application layer)
and back-end data (database
layer) in one place.
 Two-Tier Architecture
• Two-tier architecture is divided
into two parts:
• Client Tier
• Database Tier
• Client tier handles both
Presentation layer and
Application layer.
• Database tier handles the
Database layer.
 Three-Tier Architecture
• Three-tier architecture is divided into three
parts:
• Client Tier (presentation layer)
• Application Tier (business layer)
• Database Tier (database layer)
• Client tier handles the presentation layer.
Presentation layer passes data which is
given by the user in terms of keyboard
actions and mouse clicks to the application
tier.
• Application tier processes data received
from the presentation layer and database
layer. Application tier acts as an
intermediary between the presentation
layer and database layer.
• Database tier stores and retrieves the
information.
 N-Tier Architecture
• In n-tier, "n" refers to the number of
tiers being used.
• It is also known as multi-tier
architecture.
• N-tier architecture usually divides
an application into three tiers:
• Presentation Tier
• Logic Tier
• Data Tier
 Summary of Today’s Lecture
• Categories of Web Applications
- Document Centric
- Social Web
- Semantic Web
• Web Architectures
- One-Tier Architecture
- Two-Tier Architecture
- Three-Tier Architecture
- N-Tier Architecture