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Overview In the past, most companies built their own middleware. For example, a financial services firm might build some of the middleware services above to help them put together a stock trading system. These days, companies that build their own middleware risk setting themselves up for failure. High-end middleware is hideously complicated to build and maintain, requires expert-level knowledge, and is completely orthogonal to most companies core business. Why not buy instead of build? The application server was born to let you buy these middleware services, rather than build them yourself. Application servers provide you with common middleware services, such as resource pooling, networking, and more. Application servers enable you to focus on your application and not worry about the middleware you need for a robust server-side deployment. You write the code specific to your vertical industry and deploy that code into the runtime environment of an application server. You ve just solved your business problem by dividing and conquering. THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN BUILDING LARGE BUSINESS SYSTEMS By now you should have a decent list of things you d have to worry about when building large business systems. Here s a short list of the big things we came up with. Don t worry if you don t understand all of them yet you will. . Remote method invocations. We need logic that connects a client and server via a network connection. This includes dispatching method re- quests, brokering parameters, and more. . Load balancing. Clients must be directed to the server with the lightest load. If a server is overloaded, a different server should be chosen. . Transparent fail-over. If a server crashes, or if the network crashes, can clients be rerouted to other servers without interruption of service? If so, how fast does fail-over happen? Seconds? Minutes? What is acceptable for your business problem? . Back-end integration. Code needs to be written to persist business data into databases as well as integrate with legacy systems that may already exist. . Transactions. What if two clients access the same row of the database si- multaneously? Or what if the database crashes? Transactions protect you from these issues. . Clustering. What if the server contains state when it crashes? Is that state replicated across all servers, so that clients can use a different server? . Dynamic redeployment. How do you perform software upgrades while the site is running? Do you need to take a machine down, or can you keep it running? (continued)
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