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Question by Stephanie
Submitted on 5/24/2004
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What is the difference between a "Thick client" and a Thin client?

Answer by Hari
Submitted on 7/1/2004
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Answer by kotesh
Submitted on 11/23/2004
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Basically, Thin client is web based application and most of the processing done on server side. Thick client is installed into client side, it is still connected to server but most of the processing done on client side. Roughly, with thick client, there won't be much processing via the network. In a way, it will be much faster option if your network is slow or congested.

Answer by kranthi
Submitted on 10/18/2005
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Answer by cjpriya
Submitted on 1/23/2006
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In a client server architecture, a Thin client has little or no application logic, and so it has to depend on the server for processing. A thick client does most of the processing in itself and sends only the data required for communications to the server. This reduces the network bandwidth effectively

Answer by mynetalias
Submitted on 4/4/2006
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Thick Client : Processing is done on client side. eg: Applets. Thin client : Processing is done on server side. eg: Yahoo, hotmail, etc.

Answer by shalu
Submitted on 6/1/2007
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A thick client does processing on the client. JVM to JVM has nothing to do with it. A thick client accepts data from the server, and processes it on the client. A thin client is a view only. All processing is performed on the server, at which time the server gives back only the view. The clients only responsibility is to present it.

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