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Web Application Architecture?

I’m scoping a new software project and haven’t had much experience with software development. This is a multipart question.

  1. What are some recommended books for web application architecture?

  2. We are basically looking to develop several front end applications (mobile and websites) that can query a central application pool that’ll hit our backend database to retrieve the data. Is there a name for this kind of architecture?

Solution

  • What are some recommended books for web application architecture?

    That depends on the design pattern you will use. MVC (Model-View-Controller) is a good pattern. The Model is the database, Controller is the middle between the other two (where all the business and logic is), and View is what you see in the browser. There is no one answer as to what MVC should you use. For example you can choose MySQL as the Model, Java Servlets as the Controller and jQuery for View.

    We are basically looking to develop several front end applications (mobile and websites) that can query a central application pool that’ll hit our backend database to retrieve the data. Is there a name for this kind of architecture?

    Depends on your platform, if you are on Windows then WAMP is a good place to start from, it already has Apache application server, MySQL database, and PHP.