June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
Integrated server environments are often implemented as 3-tier environments, for example, consisting of (1) Web browsers, (2) Web application servers, and (3) back-end servers. A common physical implementation of such a 3-tier environment is shown in Figure 19-12. The Web browsers run on workstations, the applications servers on UNIX servers, and the back-end server on a mainframe. The examples show VSE/ESA as the traditional mainframe operating system, but it could also be a z/OS system.

Linux on the mainframe allows you to implement a logical 3-tier environment ...