Auction Demo Architecture: Diagram

Database
Server
Web
Server
Client
(IE 4.0)
HTTP
HTML
<->
Dynamic HTML
ECMAScript
XML DSO
<->
SQL Server <-> ASP
XML
<->

This is your classic three-tier architecture with the database on one side, the client on the other side, and the Web server in between. The client is running Internet Explorer 4.0, and the Auction interface is a set of Web pages containing ECMAScript, Dyanamic HTML, and an XML data source object (DSO). The XML DSO uses ASP scripts to download XML from the SQL Server database.

If you're running Internet Explorer 4.0, you can click a box in the diagram to drill into it, or select from the list on the left.

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