The cycles of life (or obsolescence) of information systems force the companies to evolve and/or redesign the applications (and their data) by espousing the models of architecture proposed by the technological offerings of the market.

After installing the centralized multi-user model (mainframes and minicomputers) which made it possible to automate certain management processes, client/server architecture started the "big-bang" by suggesting partitioning this monolithic "primordial soup" into two parts (data servers on one side and presentation/ processing logic on user workstations on the other side).

Internet technologies became essential because of the homogenisation and simplification network level standards (the TCP/IP and HTTP protocols, among others) and brought about the emergence of new application models (intranet, extranet and Internet), distributed over several levels (N-tier).
In principle, this approach suggested how to resolve deployment ( the advantages of lightweight customer interface in HTML) and scalability, due to the partitioning of functions that becomes when they are uncoupled from each other.

However, to realize these promises, it is best to adopt a convergent approach for both the level of the technical infrastructure installation (safety policies, architectural definition, platform exploitation, scalability) and the methods for developing these new applications. This implies mastery of various techniques: object orientation, components, approaches based on services through tools, and a design and modeling approach.

The most well-known architectures offered by the marketplace to implement these distributed architectures are J2EE and .NET.

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