•  Preface
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Organization
  •  Using this manual
    • References to ABL compiler and run-time features
    • References to ABL data types
  •  Examples of syntax descriptions
    • Long syntax descriptions split across lines
    • Complex syntax descriptions with both required and optional elements
  • Example procedures
  •  OpenEdge messages
    • Obtaining more information about OpenEdge messages
•  Overview
  • Differences between WebClient and the standard ABL client
  •  Common WebClient scenarios
    • ASP scenario
    • IT department scenario
  •  WebClient files and software
    • WebClient versus WebClient applications
  • Personnel involved in WebClient deployments
  •  WebClient installation types
    • Administrator installations
    • Personal installations
    • Installation precedence
  • Requirements for using WebClient
  •  WebClient architecture
    • WebClient Application Assembler
    • WebClient Deployment Packager
    •  Using IntelliStream technology
      • Advantages of using IntelliStream
      • Codebase locator
      • Components and download mode
      • Component update files
      • Determining if a resource was modified
      • Obsolete versions
      • System tasks and ABL routine facilities
      • Digital signatures
    • Using non-IntelliStream technology
    • Using IntelliStream with non-IntelliStream technologies
  •  Running the application
    • Configuration file locator
    • Acceptable-to-run versions
    • Single sign-on
    • Server sharing
  •  Application requirements
    • Access databases only through an AppServer
    • Modularize code by function
    • Choosing which installation types to support
  •  WebClient platforms
    • Deciding the platform for your application
    • Defining the WebClient application's platform support
    • Running 32-bit WebClient applications on 64-bit Windows
•  Designing Your End User's Experience
  •  Installation process
    • Microsoft Vista installations
  •  WebClient application installation
    • IntelliStream
    • External installer
  • Updates for your application
  • Uninstalling your application
  • Starting WebClient applications
  • Providing documentation
•  Hosting the WebClient Deployment
  • Hosting application configuration files
  •  Hosting codebases
    • Hosting the codebase on an internet-based server
    • Hosting the codebase on an AppServer
•  Designing Security
  •  Digitally signing files
    • Making Microsoft signing tools available to OpenEdge
    •  How WebClient uses digital signatures
      • Getting a private key, public key, and public-key certificate
      • Defining an application as signed
      • How your public-key certificate gets to the end user
      • Creating test public-key certificates
  •  Protecting servers with user IDs and passwords
    •  Prompting the end user for authentication information
      • Enabling authentication for an application-configuration-file server
      • Enabling authentication for a codebase server
  •  Single sign-on and security caching
    • Using WebClient logon dialogs in your applications
  • Choosing secure communication protocols
•  Developing the Application
  •  Using the CODEBASE-LOCATOR handle and its attributes
    • Basic attributes
    • Security-cache attributes
    • Additional attribute
  • Checking application registry access
  • Managing AppServer connections
  • Implementing single sign-on
  •  Using WebClient's authentication dialogs
    • Displaying the AIA authentication dialog
    • Displaying the AppServer authentication dialog
    • Displaying the AIA and AppServer authentication dialog
  •  Using URLs in PROPATH for image file downloads
    • Using the SEARCH function
    • Using the LOAD-IMAGE( ) method
    •  Handling errors
      • URL specification errors
      • Connection errors
      • Authentication errors
  • Compiling the application
•  Deploying an Application
  •  Preparing to use the WebClient Application Assembler
    • Required input files
  •  Installation type considerations
    •  Administrator installations
      • Granting write privileges
    •  Personal installations
      • InstallShield Setup Player add-on and personal installations
  •  Choosing an installation method
    •  IntelliStream
      • Application components
      • System tasks
      • ABL install procedure
      • Uninstall
    •  External installer
      • WebClient registry keys and shortcuts
      • Application installer registry key entries for vendor and application
      • Application installer registry key entries for the configuration file
      • Application installer registry key entries for WebClient applications
    •  Using a combination of IntelliStream and an external installer
      • Application installer registry key entries for components
      • Providing an uninstall
  •  Defining applications in WebClient Application Assembler
    • General tab
    • Component tab
    •  Options tab
      • ABL install procedure
      • Web-enabled external installer
      • System Tasks and personal installations
    • WebClient tab
  • Files generated by the WebClient Application Assembler
  •  Customizing deployment configurations
    •  Distribution of the Deployment Packager
      • Distributing and installing the standalone version
    • Changes allowed through the Deployment Packager
    •  Defining a custom deployment configuration
      • Security considerations
    • Validating the custom deployment configuration
    •  Generating the .prowcapc file
      • Interactive mode
      • Batch mode
  •  Hosting the application on a server
    • Hosting the configuration file
    • Hosting your application component files
    • Hosting your external installer
    •  Hosting on a Web server
      • Case sensitivity on UNIX Web servers
      • Executable directories
      • Authentication options on Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
      • Configuring MIME types for your Web server
  •  Installing WebClient
    • Accessing the WebClient installation files
    • Customizing the WebClient installation
  •  Bootstrapping a WebClient application
    • Starting the application
    • Bootstrapping and personal instances
    • How the bootstrapping process works
    • Bootstrapping with no WebClient installed
    • Bootstrapping with some version of the WebClient installed
    • Customizing the bootstrap.htm file
    • Checking for an acceptable version of WebClient
    • Checking for required application updates
  •  WebClient application updates
    • Updating procedure libraries
    •  Suppressing the WebClient Application Update dialog
      • Creating the string value AppAutoUpdate entry using Windows registry
      • Creating the string value AppAutoUpdate entry using the ini2reg utility
  •  WebClient and OpenEdge GUI for .NET
    • .NET Framework
    • .NET assemblies
    • Other files
•  Your End Users' Experience
  • Preparing documentation for end users
  •  WebClient Application Manager
    • Using the WebClient Application Manager
    • WebClient tab
    • Applications tab
    •  Edit dialog
      • General tab
      • Log tab
      • Security tab
      • Component tab
•  Deploying the Sample Application with IntelliStream
  • Preparing to run the sample application
  •  Preparing the Web server
    • Setting up the Java Servlet Engine and the AppServer Internet Adapter
    • Setting up MIME types for the application configuration file
    • Setting up the WebClient install and bootstrap mechanism
  • Setting up the application on the AppServer machine
  • Setting up the application to launch from the Web server
  • Installing and running the application on the client machine
•  Deploying the Sample Application Without IntelliStream
  • Preparing to run the sample application
  •  Preparing the Web server
    • Setting up the Java Servlet Engine and the AppServer Internet Adapter
    • Setting up MIME types for the application configuration file
  • Setting up the application on the AppServer machine
  • Setting up the application on the Web server machine
  • Installing and running the application on the client machine