In their most general meanings, the terms front end and back end refer to the initial and the end stages of a process flow. These terms acquire more special meanings in particular areas. The general idea is that the front-end is responsible for collecting input from the user, which can be in a variety of forms, and processing it in such a way that it conforms to a specification that the back-end can use. The connection of the front-end to the back-end is a kind of interface.

• In software design, the front-end is the part of a software system that deals with the user, and the back-end is the part that processes the input from the front-end. The separation of software systems into "front ends" and "back ends" is a kind of abstraction that helps to keep different parts of the system separated.

• Some common methods for interacting with computers can be conceptualized in terms of a "front-end" and "back-end". For example, a graphical file manager, such as Windows Explorer or the Nautilus file manager, can be thought of as a front-end to the computer's file system. At the OS level, the concept of a graphical user interface (GUI) can be thought of as a "front end" for the system (for general users), while the command line or "TUI" is sufficiently technical to be considered a "back-end." This often applies to software packages as well, which may have both graphical interfaces (front) as well as command-line scripts (back).

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@twaeng Flash ist OSS? Leider nicht. Wäre der Flashplayer OSS, wäre das schon drin, da wette ich mit Dir. Siehe mplayer, vdr-Frontends, ...
wusel (wusel) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:44:18 -0000
@twaeng Flash ist OSS? Leider nicht. Wäre der Flashplayer OSS, wäre das schon drin, da wette ich mit Dir. Siehe mplayer, vdr-Frontends, ...
@mptre Nagios använder vi till väldigt många servers. En rad olika webb frontends.
fdqps (Fredrik Davidsson) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:19:07 -0000
@mptre Nagios använder vi till väldigt många servers. En rad olika webb frontends.
@Joomla_Aktuell: In der de-DE.ini des Frontends fehlt: JPAGE_CURRENT_OF_TOTAL=Seite %s von %s ;)
peterader (Peter Ader) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:02 -0000
@Joomla_Aktuell: In der de-DE.ini des Frontends fehlt: JPAGE_CURRENT_OF_TOTAL=Seite %s von %s ;)
@evantbyrne There are GUI frontends, google Tortoise*git/svn/hg* . Many IDEs also have common VC actions integrated/available as plugins
lastkarrde (Logan) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:42:49 -0000
@evantbyrne There are GUI frontends, google Tortoise*git/svn/hg* . Many IDEs also have common VC actions integrated/available as plugins
@jainsarthak oh well there are enough www frontends for rtorrent: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/UtilsList
initrd (ashish v) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:46:20 -0000
@jainsarthak oh well there are enough www frontends for rtorrent: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/UtilsList
@dmfrey The 2 frontends are cheap MicroATX systems with a minimum of RAM, and use old disused drives.
gadgetwisdom (gadgetwisdom) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:47:17 -0000
@dmfrey The 2 frontends are cheap MicroATX systems with a minimum of RAM, and use old disused drives.

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