I haven't seen any definitions either but I'll take liberty to make some
explanation. The thickness of a client is determined by the amount of processing the
downloaded web page requires from the client machine and, of course, where the
processing is actually done - on the server or the client machine. For example, if
you download a web page that houses an applet you can definitely say it is thick
because an applet is actually an application and requires a lot of client
processing. But, if you download a web page that is generated by a Servlet and
comprised of only HTML tags and some scripts you can, for sure, say it is thin.

Hope that helped?

srdjan


----- Original Message -----
From: "vinod kumar" <vinod_msc@(protected)>
To: <JSP-INTEREST@(protected)>
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: thick client


> hi,
>
> anybody please explain what are these Thin Client and Thick Client.. with
> examples..
>
> i referred lot of materials but i could'nt get the actual definitions of
> them..
>
> thanks and regards,
>
> vinod kumar
>
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