Building smart Web applications for a smarter planet

Building smart Web applications for a smarter planet: "Currently, Web-based applications are being developed for almost every industry, providing online services that people can access anytime and anywhere. Such services range from online tutoring to virtual shopping, helping people complete their tasks with comfort and ease. Web-based systems are quite attractive because there are no platform constraints and installation requirements. With the emergence of Web 2.0, there is a lot of momentum to build intelligent Web applications that provide more intelligent services. This article describes an architecture for intelligent Web-based applications and discusses each component in the application with implementation details."