Web And Client Server Technology

Web services and Client-Server technology made it possible for applications to integrate of separate components. These components might exist on separate machines, but they work together through network (Internet) communication. Applications using web services demonstrate the integration of components coming from multiple sources. This makes version management important. One of the benefits of having to focus on version management is to make developers aware of component dependencies and specific areas that require maintenance in each version. This allows developers to customize maintenance for application deployment. These distributed application components use universal formats provided by such programming languages as XML (Extensible Markup Language) and WSDL (Web Standard Description Language).

For the purposes of this discussion, applications that take advantage of web services will be understood as ‘balanced computing model’ because these applications are designed to take the fullest advantage of both client and server capabilities in the most efficient way. This model of balanced computing improves traditional Client-Server model by not stressing one part of the system and ignoring the capabilities of other parts.