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Custom Applications and Policy Server Extensions

Note the following points when you build custom applications and Policy Server extensions:

• No SiteMinder processes need to be running on the machine where you build custom applications and Policy Server extensions.
• In most cases, the SDK does not need to be installed on the same machine as the Policy Server when you build those applications and extensions.
• The Policy Server is required for running the applications and extensions that you build with the SiteMinder SDK.
• Some of the application and extension runtime files need to be local to the Policy Server, while others can be remote.
• An application built with the Policy Management API must run as the same user who installed the Policy Server (for example, smuser on UNIX platforms).
• The C API cannot make JNI calls. There is no synchronization in the Policy Server to support such calls. It is possible, however, to spawn off a separate process that invokes Java and communicates back to the main process by using sockets