How Much Middle-Tier Do You Need?*

Abstract: Middle-tier-technologies have been realized to be the only useful way of controlling data-flow between the internet and databases in the intranet. In the last years there have been many different approaches to solve this middle-tier-problem. In this paper, we present a middle-tier-platform called the “Smart-Data-Server ” and show its flexibility and applicability with a practical example and point out the main differences between this middle-tier platform and other approaches