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Client Server Encyclopedia Component Compatibility

The Client-Server Encyclopedia Checkout client is at the same release as the Workstation Toolset. There is no Workstation Toolset constraint for other clients. Since the clients are frequently updated after updating the Workstation Toolset, be aware of the following compatibilities between clients and servers:

• CA Gen Release 8.5 Client-Server Encyclopedia servers support CA Gen Release 8 and AllFusion Gen 7x clients. Not all new features of the CA Gen Release 8.5 Client-Server Encyclopedia servers are available when using the AllFusion Gen 7x and CA Gen Release 8 clients.
• COOL:Gen 6.0 and Advantage Gen 6.5 Client-Server Encyclopedia clients are compatible with Advantage Gen 6.5 servers and AllFusion Gen 7 servers. Not all new features in the later release servers are available to these clients.

The following communication considerations are:

• CA Gen supports seamless connections between all combinations of current schema and prior schema encyclopedia server releases. A seamless connection implies that Client-Server Encyclopedia servers from different releases can interact entirely through the Client-Server Encyclopedia client interfaces. Both encyclopedias must support the models that are involved in any seamless operation.
• CA Gen supports non-seamless functions between all combinations of supported Client-Server Encyclopedia servers. A non-seamless connection implies that Client-Server Encyclopedia servers from different releases can interact through a command-line interface. Both encyclopedias must support the schemas of models that are involved in any non-seamless operation.