Chapter 33. Inventory Manager: Client/Server Development

In This Chapter

• Designing the Back End

• Centralizing Database Access: The Business Rules

• Designing the User Interface

• Summary

This chapter illustrates how to design a database application using the concepts discussed in Chapter 29, "Developing Client/Server Applications." Here, we illustrate techniques for developing a two-tier client/server application. In this application we have divided up the application logic, or business rules, between both the client and the server. We also illustrate how to centralize data access in a data module, thus allowing us to completely separate the user interface from the database logic.