What separates one tier from another in the context of n-tiered architecture?
Created May 4, 2012
John Kroubalkian It depends on the application.
The important thing is the functionality at each tier.
In a web application, for example, where tier 1 is a web-server, it may communicate with a tier 2 Application Server using RMI over IIOP, and subsequently tier 2 may communicate with tier 3 (data storage) using JDBC, etc.
Each of these tiers may be on separate physical machines or they may share the same box.
- Tier 1 - Presentation - should be concerned mainly with display of user interfaces and/or data to the client browser or client system.
- Tier 2 - Application - should be concerned with business logic
- Tier 3+ - Storage/Enterprise Systems - should be focused on data persistence and/or communication with other Enterprise Systems.
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