Thanks Geoff that makes sense now. Similar to the Microsoft model where a web server call COM objects on an application server that call a database server. Would it be possible to have the Web server calling Cold Fusion web services on the application server.
Brian -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Bowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2003 10:16 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: 3 Tier application Knott, Brian wrote: > So you are still have CF code on the Web Server, it is just executed by the > application server. Well yes and no. The CF code is on the app server and executed on the app server. Your effectively tricking the webserver into passing the .cfm/.cfc request off to another server for processing. The other server has to have the exact same directory set up as the webserver so that it can look up the relevant code. In practice this means that replicating the directory structure and code base onto the webserver is probably the easiest thing -- ie the web server and app server mirror each other for directories and files. Just to add even more fun to the mix if you're going for such an implementation then to have redundancy you really need to load balance the app servers at the back-end. Here is another article that's bound to add a few grey hairs :) http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/j2ee/articles/balancing_j2ee. html -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
