Multitier Application Architecture

Multitier Application Architecture was designed to provide an environment that is suitable for the development of fully portable, Java technology-based, enterprise-class application systems using the Enterprise Java platform. Often the true measure of an enterprise application system comes down to system scalability and total throughput. How many users can concurrently use the system? How many objects can by instantiated in a given time frame? And how many transactions can be processed per second?

Enterprise application systems support high scalability by using a multitier, distributed application architecture. A multitier application is an application that has been partitioned into multiple application components. ...

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