Making the Transition to Client - Server Programming
Making the transition to client - server programming is a significant effort. Client - server applications must be designed with modularity in mind because portions of the application program are to be executed on more than one machine. These modular components, when combined across a network, greatly increase the capacity and performance of application software.
Applications developed with an old-world mentality - in other words, monolithic applications- will require a great deal of effort to migrate to client - server. On the other hand, applications developed with new coding techniques such as object- oriented programming will take significantly less time to migrate.