Application Clients for WebSphere® Application Server follow
several programming models with unique requirements and suitability for different
types of applications. Most of these models are only available when you install
the product.
Client modules
For a list of supported products
and version information, see the Supported Prerequisites Web site.
- ActiveX application
client (Windows® platforms only)
- WebSphere Application
Server provides an ActiveX to EJB bridge that enables ActiveX programs to
access WebSphere Enterprise JavaBeans through
a set of ActiveX automation objects.
- Applet client (Windows platforms
only)
- The applet client provides a browser-based Java run time capable of interacting with
enterprise beans directly, instead of indirectly through a servlet.
- Java EE application client
- The Java EE application client programming model provides the benefits
of Java Platform,
Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
- Pluggable application
client (Windows platforms only)
- The pluggable application client is a thin application client that uses
the Sun Java run-time environment (JRE) instead of the IBM® JRE environment.
- Thin application client
- This application client is a Java application client without the Java
EE client container support. It uses a different programming model than the
Java EE application client.