N-tier application architecture provides a model for developers to create a flexible and reusable application. By breaking up an application into tiers, developers only have to modify or add a specific layer, rather than have to rewrite the enitire application over, if they decide to change technologies or scale up. In the term "N-tier," "N" implies any number -- like 2-tier, or 4-tier; basically, any number of distinct tiers used in your architecture. Application architectures are part of Layer 7 of the OSI model.
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another name for it is dynamic link libraries or module files.
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Anonymous2007-06-14 4:16 ID:JTeYzXo/
My tiers are recursive
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Anonymous2007-06-14 5:59 ID:cyYhx7nz
this made me cry tiers of joy
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Anonymous2007-06-14 6:04 ID:cyYhx7nz
"N" implies any number -- like 2-tier, or 4-tier; basically, any number like 1, or 3, or 2574, or -142.4, or pi.
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Anonymous2007-06-14 10:48 ID:JTeYzXo/
I develop professional PI-Tier solutions for my enterprise.
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Anonymous2007-06-14 15:16 ID:1xnnszjR
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This makes it easy to write ISO-9000 compliant design documentation. If the corporate software development process says write 20 pages, you can fill them up with an approximation of how many tiers you will have.
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