Types of Applications in Java

Before we start coding or learning a new language, we have to know what kind of applications we can develop and what are they. Yes, there are four types of applications. 1. Stand Alone Application 2. Client Server Application 3. Web based application 4. Enterprise Application. What is stand alone? Everyone will have the same question. Yes, application which is running in a single machine and can be accessed by a single user at a time is called standalone application. For ex : MS WORD, MS ACCESS Client Server means gtalk, yahoo messenger. To solve the drawbacks of stand alone, client server came into picture. In CS Application, some part of the application is stored in the server machine and some part in the client machine. Server is centralized place to store some date and some part of the application. For ex : we have gtalk in our pc and we login and we do chatting, video calling etc. Once we login, request will go to server and there it will check whether we are valid user or not. If yes, we go available and thats how client server application works. Application is installed on both sides. Web Based : ex : Gmail , yahoomail etc. This kind of application is limited to a single organization. Finally enterprise : In web based, only those organization clients can access it, other can't. To solve that enterprise came into picture. To develop enterprise application, we need to learn java, j2ee, j2me, struts so on... Once its developed , anyone can access from anywhere and from any kind of application.