3.3. E-Business Servers
This section discusses some of the common software servers that are used to support e-business functions. An e-business function is processed by several servers in an e-business site. Requests arrive from browsers in the case of customer to individual e-commerce or are generated by computers as is the case in many business-to-business applications. In any case, we say that the source of the requests are clients of the services provided by the servers of the e-business site.
Figure 3.2 illustrates a typical logical configuration of an e-business site. The front-end server is a Web server. This server supports the HTTP protocol and usually serves the site home page and processes requests to retrieve static HTML pages and ...
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