The Client Tier - Open University Course Team

This unit considers the code that must run on a client system, such as a browser, to facilitate communication with the server-based web tier. The issues of time and how distributed systems deal with the problem of there not being a single common clock that all clients and other parts of the sytem are synchronised with are also addressed in this unit.To complete the activities associated with this unit and to gain a full understanding of the subject it is recommended you have access to a copy of the Netbeans software, available as a free download from www.netbeans.org,