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Distributed application

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An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications are two-tier (client-server), three-tier (client-middleware-server), and multitier (Source: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/glossary.html)

See also distributed computing.