Chapter 15 Database Connectivity and Web Technologies

Database Connectivity and Web Technologies 470 Discussion Focus Begin by making sure that the students are familiar with the basic vocabulary. The following two questions are a good place to start. (You may want to examine the contents of Appendix F, “Client/Server Systems.”) There is some irony in the Web development arena … the microcomputer was supposed to liberate the end user from the mainframe computer’s “fat server, thin client” environment. However, the Web has, in effect, brought us back to the old mainframe structure in which most processing is done on the server side, while the client is the source and recipient of data/information requests and returns.