Evolution of Web Application

Characteristics of web Application

Apart from common needs for a business-oriented web site, the necessity for new technologies to create robust, dynamic and compact server-side web applications has been realized.

The major characteristics of dynamic web server applications are:

. Serve HTML and XML, and stream data to the web client

. Separate presentation, logic and data

. Interface to databases, other Java applications, directory and mail services.

. Make use of application server middleware to provide transactional support.

. Track client sessions.