Web Application Development

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Web Application Development
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Definition

• In software engineering, a Web application or
  webapp is an application that is accessed with a
  Web browser over a network such as the Internet
  or an intranet.

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Advantages of Web Applications

• They use the browser as a client, sometimes
  called a thin client.
• Platform independent, same application runs under
  Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating
  systems.
• They can be updated and maintained without
  distributing and installing software on
  potentially thousands of client computers.

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Web Application Examples

• Webmail
• Online retail sales
• Online auctions
• Wikis
• Discussion boards
• Weblogs
• MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online
  role-playing game)

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Development

• Client-Side runs on the client-side (Internet
  Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, etc)
• JavaScript
• DHTML
• Server-Side runs on the server-side (Apache,
  Internet Information Services(IIS), lighttpd)
• CGI
• PHP
• Active Server Pages (ASP)