This separation becomes the fundamental principle in the three-tier architecture ... a Java applet contained in a web page (originally obtained from a web server) is responsible for the application's ...

I'm trying to get a mental handle on the 3 tiered DB app (DB-back end, Mid-tier, Web Server-Front end) and when it should be used in place of a smaller scale 2-tiered web app (DB-Backend ...

The idea of a three-tier DBMS architecture may sound familiar to application developers ... the term three-tier is often substituted for the term three-level to reference this DBMS schema design ...

McAdams, who is CEO of PaaS vendor TrackVia, successfully argued that you wouldn't want to use Database.com as the database layer in a 3-tier client-server architecture: "... web application ...