According to the Unified Modeling Language User Guide By Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphical language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. The UML gives you a standard way to write a system's blueprints, covering conceptual things, such as business processes and system functions, as well as concrete things, such as classes written in a specific programming language, database schemas, and …showed first 75 words of 1775 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1775 total…ch03lev1sec5&open=false&g=&srchText=multi%2Dtier+architecture&code=&h=&m=&l=1&catid=itbooks.dbase&s=1&b=1&f=1&t=1&c=1&u=1&r=&o=1&page=0 Kronke, D. M. (2000). Database Processing: Fundamentals, Design & Implementation, (7th ed.). Boston: PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING. Wikipedia. (2002, June 15). Multitier architecture. Retrieved September 13, 2003, from Wikipedia Web Site: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture