On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Barney Boisvert <bboisv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Three tier architecture is about physically separating your > presentation code (typically an MVC application) from your business > logic (typically a set of business objects) and your persistence layer > (a database) onto different hardware.
In the web world, it can often mean having separate web servers, application servers and database servers. > The advantages are that the > three layers can then scale independently and that they can have > different network security policies wrapped around them. Yup, what Barney said (even about web, app and DB servers). > Fusebox is concerned with MVC, since it is a UI-layer code framework. ...and it lives on the application server. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN Railo Technologies US -- http://getrailo.com/ An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwoo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329775 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4