Points of Failure

• The client side of the application could crash
• The client system may have h/w problems
• The client's network card could fail
• Network contention could cause timeouts
• There may be network address conflicts
• Network elements such as routers could fail
• Transmission errors may lose messages
• The client and server versions may be incompatable
• The server's network card could fail
• The server system may have h/w problems
• The server s/w may crash
• The server's database may become corrupted