Middle-Tier Architecture

This middle-tier architecture allows the existing database to be the "database of record." At the same time, it also protects the existing database from direct Internet traffic and provides a high performance engine to interact with the Internet traffic. Also see for this architecture. For how to use object database with Java application servers, see .

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