In Windows platform deployment creates an application that clients can access. If the Stop Deployment After configuration property is set to Run, the application is automatically started on the runtime host as soon as deployment is complete. However, it might be necessary to back up the database after the application is deployed, so you might want to stop the build after the install stage.

Component Enabler

The standard application components that are deployed from Visual Studio run on Windows platforms only. Component Enabler adds the ability to access standard Agile Business Suite applications from non­Windows platforms by using a graphical user interface.

To generate Component Enabler components, set the Deploy Component Enabler User Interface configuration property to True. Select the appropriate language for the Default Translation segment configuration property. The Component Enabler generator takes your ispec interface definitions and builds standard JavaBeans components and sample Java user interface applets.

Component Enabler sessions are established as TCP/IP connections using the Remote Access Server interface. This allows most client applications on most platforms to easily access your application.

Web­Enabling with Component Enabler

Component Enabler supports many ways of enabling access to user systems from Web browsers. One way is to run the generated sample interface application as an applet from a Web browser. More complex and dynamic Web pages can be built by using scripting languages and the Component Enabler component interfaces to access remote Agile Business Suite applications. Web servers can use server­side scripting and Component Enabler components to dynamically build Web pages that include live data from Agile Business Suite applications.

The ASP Generator can also be used to automatically generate Active Server Pages (ASPs) from an application defined in System Modeler. The ASPs that are generated are designed to create HTML pages that are similar to the graphical forms defined in the Painter. To provide the widest possible browser type and version support, some attributes of a graphical form are not included (for example, combo boxes). However, the customer can choose to modify the source of the ASP Generator directly, using the ASP Generator Customization Kit. This allows a customer to develop their own ASP generator that suits their specific needs.