The Client-Server Paradigm

The paradigm of arranging for one application program to wait passively for another application to initiate communication pervades so much of distributed computing that it has been given a name :the client server paradigm of interaction.The terms client and server refers to two application involved in communication.The application that actively initiates contact is called client,while the application that passively waits for contact is called server.In short we can say that Network application use a form of communication known as client server paradigm.A server application waits passively for contact,while a client application initiates communication actively.