Theoretical question:Client Side

[Vikas Malla <ma...@yahoo.co.in>]

What exactly is the client side? Normally, we talk about having a two/three tier architechture in which we talk about client side, server side etc.

I was trying to think why the cactus project decided to name it so.

Any suggestions.

TIA

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Re: Theoretical question:Client Side

[Christopher Lenz <cm...@gmx.de>]

Vikas Malla wrote:
> What exactly is the client side? Normally, we talk about having a two/three tier architechture in which we talk about client side, server side etc.
> 
> I was trying to think why the cactus project decided to name it so.

In the context of Cactus, "client side" refers to the JVM where the 
JUnit test runner is executed, while "server side" is the 
servlet-container where the actual "in-container" tests are performed. 
The servlet-container usually lives in a different JVM, and 
communication between the two is currently always via HTTP.

This has little to do with the N-tier architecture used in the 
application you're testing. Except that Cactus would be pretty useless 
in a single-tier application ;-)

The Cactus documentation should actually give you a pretty good idea of 
the Cactus client/server-architecture.

-- 
Christopher Lenz
/=/ cmlenz at gmx.de


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