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Web Generation Highlights

There are four environments involved in Web Generation that can be located on one machine or four physically separate machines. The following environments are involved in Web Generation:

• Server environment—The CA Gen runtime is installed for generated server applications. No special setup is required for Web Generation applications.
• Application Server environment—The runtime engine for the client is installed on an application server, which enables CA Gen to run the generated Web Generation application. The application servers must conform to the J2EE 1.4 standard.
• Development environment—The Toolset provides the environment, to develop and generate CA Gen Web Generation applications. This environment contains the components that generate the application both locally and remotely.
• Build environment—This environment enables the generated files from the CA Gen Development environment to be compiled and packaged into a Web Application Archive (WAR) and/or an Enterprise Application Archive (EAR). The CA Gen Build environment is often located on the same machine as the CA Gen Development environment.

The generated product includes the following highlights:

• The application logic resides on the application server machine.
• Java Server Pages (JSPs) serve as entry points to generated applications.
• The User Interface is a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets that is downloaded to the browser.
• Permitted Value and Edit Pattern checking takes place on the browser using JavaScript.
• The product lets existing users reuse their models by generating Web Generation applications.
• The Web Generation software can access databases by using Gen Server applications or utilizing JDBC on the Application Server environment.
• The Web Generation client interface on Web browsers can be on any platform for which supported versions of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are available.
• JavaRMI, TCP/IP, MQSeries, Tuxedo, Webservices, and ECI are the only thread-safe middleware available for Web Generation.
• Due to browser and HTML limitations, some CA Gen related features have a different level of support when generated for Web Generation.

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