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Web View Environments

You must install CA Gen Studio as instructed from the CA Gen download folder.

Note: For more information about CA Gen Studio installation, see the CA Gen Studio Overview Guide or the CA Gen Studio Help.

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

• Server Environment—The CA Gen runtime is installed for generated server applications. No special setup is required for Web View applications.
• Application Server Environment—The runtime engine for the client is installed on an application server, which enables you to run the generated Web View application on a browser. The application servers must conform to Java EE standard.

  Note: For more information about the supported Java EE version, see the Technical Requirements document.

• Development Environment—The Toolset and the CA Gen Studio framework provide the environment to develop and generate CA Gen Web View 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) inside of 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 in an EAR/WAR file.
• LM.html and TC.html files serve as entry points to generated applications.
• The Web View application is a combination of HTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets that are downloaded to the browser.
• Permitted Value and Edit Pattern checking takes place on the browser using JavaScript Edit Pattern checking, and it also takes place on the application server.
• The product enables existing users to reuse their models by generating Web View applications.
• The Web View software can access databases by using CA Gen Server applications or utilizing JDBC on the Application Server environment.
• The Web View application interface can be available on any platform with a supported Web browser.

  Note: For more information, see the Technical Requirements document.

• Due to browser and HTML limitations, some CA Gen related features have a different level of support when generated for Web View.