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6.2. An example of a Three Tier System

We will now look at an unsophisticated three tier system. It will use a WWW browser on a computer called altair that downloads a Java applet from a WWW server running on perseus. The Java applet will display some buttons and textfields. A click on a button will cause the Java applet to send a request (using JavaIDL) to a Java application that is also running on perseus. This Java application will send (using JDBC) an appropriate SQL statement to a database server running on a computer called hercules:

The applet will display three buttons and three textfields: