Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Thin Server Architecture
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 08 23:30:21 GMT
As usual on the Internet, the same idea seems to bubble up
from several people all at once.
For the last 2 years or so, I’ve been thinking a lot about
web app architecture and app server frameworks. My thinking
has led to an approach that I’ve been trying to explain in
some previous posts.
But now Peter Svensson has given it a name:
Thin Server Architecture
http://unclescript.blogspot.com/2008/02/thin-server-architecture.html
Sounds like a nice buzzword and a nice TLA: TSA.
Peter has gotten together a group of people (me included) and
kickstarted a working group, already working on putting up some
clustered information in a place of its own:
Thin Server Architecture Working Group
http://www.thinserverarchitecture.com/
Meanwhile, while researching on the subject, I got a couple of
aditional links that are important for our thinking and for my
continuing posts about a future web framework:
How Nexaweb Works
http://www.nexaweb.com/home/us/index.html@cid=2295.html
Developing Rich Internet Applications with Declarative Markup
http://rockstarapps.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/java-basedria.pdf
Slides 6-9 are especially interesting. In slide 9 you can easily see
what TSA is all about: its represented by the 4th stack, the one where
the app container has only UI stuff (view+logic) and server side you
only have biz logic and data.
— MV
