Third Party Products used

Configuring and administrating IFS Web Client based web server is not only IFS Web Client related. Probably you have to read about the relevant third party products. The installation of IFS Web Client assumes that some required third party products, used by the IFS Web Client framework, are already installed on the computer. Some of the products are distributed within IFS Applications, others are a part of operating systems or have to be installed separately.

The list below is a brief description of software used by the IFS Web Client:

• The Java run-time environment. IFS Web Client framework is written in the Sun Java programming language and requires Java Virtual Machine at run-time. The latest certified run-time version is supplied with IFS Middle Tier and will be automatically setup during installation. 
• The web server software. No web server is distributed with IFS Applications but support for Apache or IIS is provided.
• The Java EE container. IFS Web Client is build upon a servlet architecture and needs a servlet/Java EE engine to run.

  To access the list of currently supported platforms, log on to

  • https://alliances.ifsworld.com/technology/prodcert/ (external)
  • http://wis.ifsworld.com/Technology/prodcert/ (IFS internal)
• Virtual Frame Buffer (Unix only). Virtual frame buffer (Xvfb) is an X server for X Window System, Version 11 that can run on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices. It emulates a dumb frame buffer using virtual memory. The Web Client framework needs the Virtual Frame Buffer for generation of images.
  (For most Unix dialects the software is already installed with the operating system/X11 system, otherwise is supplied by the IFS Extended Server component)
• Samba (Unix only). For previewing reports generated by the Base Server Print Server, hard disk folders need to be shared and accessible from both the web server computer and computer running the Print Server utility. For folder sharing between Unix and Windows computers the Samba product can be used, which has to be installed separately. 
• Crystal Reports framework. Optionally report based on the Crystal Reports framework can be used from the IFS Web Client. The necessary software from Crystal Reports has to be obtained separately.

•  Crystal Reports A world-standard for high-productivity reporting, Crystal Reports lets you transform almost any data into interactive content, integrate it into .NET, Java™ and COM applications and efficiently share it via portals, Microsoft® Office documents and wireless devices. 

• iText  is a library that allows the generation of PDF files on the fly. The iText classes are useful for generating read-only, platform independent documents containing text, lists, tables and images. The library is especially useful in combination with Java(^TM) technology-based Servlets. This is an open source class library and more information and source codes are available at http://www.lowagie.com/iText.
• Rtf2Html from WebCAT used by IFS Web Client is a utility class found in WebCAT which is an extensible tool to extract meta-data and generate RDF descriptions from existing Web documents. As the name of the class implies it is used to convert RTF text to HTML. IFS Web Client uses only this class from the WebCAT tool and has done minor modifications to the class to achieve required functionality. http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcat


 
• rssutils is a Utility package released by Sun Microsystems, Inc, which can be used to read RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") feeds and extract the data within them. The utility package can be used to decode most formats of the rss feeds available online. This library package can be found at the Sun Microsystems web site.