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This topic briefly explains the main WebFOCUS components and implementations. For a complete description of WebFOCUS, see the WebFOCUS documentation.
WebFOCUS unobtrusively integrates into your existing network by connecting your web server to your data. End users access WebFOCUS applications through a web browser, so they need only the following elements:
There are two main WebFOCUS components.
Note: When you perform a full Developer Studio installation for stand-alone development, you do not have to install the WebFOCUS Client separately because it is packaged with Developer Studio.
A stand-alone development environment is typically one in which all software components (the web server, WebFOCUS Client, and Reporting Server) are installed on the same local machine. This configuration gives you access to all your application files and data from a single machine. You do not need a physical network connection to access any other machine in order to accomplish your development tasks.
The following steps accompany the figure and describe how WebFOCUS processes requests:
WebFOCUS employs a distributed architecture, so the WebFOCUS Client, Reporting Server, and your data can be located on any platform in your network. You can easily connect to an Apacheā¢ web server running on UNIX to SQL Server data on Windows or DB2 data on z/OS. There can be any number of Reporting Servers connected to the WebFOCUS Client. WebFOCUS can report on all of them. The requirements are the following:
For more information on WebFOCUS configuration options, see the WebFOCUS and ReportCaster installation manuals and the server configuration manuals.
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