| The increasing complexity and quality requirements of Distributed Web Applications are laying pathways towards adoption of layered architectures in their design and implementation. These applications often need to be developed in Internet time and it has been observed that many of the popular layered architecture schemes are best implemented using Distributed Component technologies such as J2EE and .NET. The use of these technologies for realizing such applications has been proved to provide the best results, since it involves reuse of existing components, dynamic configuration of components and dynamic discovery of implementations at run-time. The thesis attempts to provide an insight into the relative strengths of each offering in terms of the quality attributes of web applications such as availability, reliability, scalability, maintainability, extensibility, reusability, portability, globalization and integration with legacy systems and we try to see how each technology encourages the idea of Component-Based Development (CBD). |
