December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
13h 12m
English
In the remote presentation client-server pattern, the graphical user interface (GUI) frontend is mapped to an existing application's text-based screen. This process is called Remote mapping or Front ending. The typical mode of operation of this pattern involves the use of intelligent workstations, which are equipped with the capability to intercept the text screen streams of data that are sent from a server system, and display them in a windowed system using a GUI. However, in these systems, most of the processing and computation happens on the server end only. One ideal example of this implementation is IBM's 3270 (mainframe) application. In this application, data from the application is sent ...
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