2.3. Key Issues for Future Application Development
In summary, future enterprise-scale applications will exhibit a number of key characteristics. These applications will typically be distributed over many sites, access commercial database management systems (both relational and object-oriented), interact with legacy applications and data, and be web-enabled to allow a browser interface for display and query on heterogeneous machines across the Internet. This seems to be true whatever the application domain, whether the system is a real-time command and control system, an enterprise management system, or a material tracking system.
These characteristics pose some important challenges for architects, designers, and implementers of these systems. ...
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