PLANNING FOR CLIENT/SERVER

It's important to plan for client/server applications as early in the development process as possible. Your initial decision of data structure and your approach to application development affect your entire migration process. Even before considering the migration path to client/server, you need to think about what your data storage needs are and what effect they will have on your network. Can your network handle the traffic demands that your application might have?

The following sections cover many server-specific rules that could trip up your client/server applications, as well as various development issues that you need to be aware of.

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