I have been part of several development efforts in which the Web developer developed 80% of the Web tier without the actual services being available.

我现有的几个开发工作中，Web开发人员在无实际服务可用的情况下开发了80%的web层。

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In a Web application, the client tier is handled by the Web browser.

在Web应用程序中，客户机层由Web浏览器处理。

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Propagate the Web server configuration to all nodes on the Web server tier.

将Web服务器配置传播到Web服务器层中的所有节点。

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Instead of relying on electronic distributors, Smith approaches second- and third-tier Web sites that offer free games and gimmicks, paying them a fee (depending on the number of different visitors).

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During the demonstration of RAD for the Server, Dave Mendlen, Visual Studio product planner, built what he called a "middle-tier business object" for a wine-selling Web site using six lines of code, an operation that he said would take "hundreds of lines of code" with the current version of Visual Basic 6.

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