Deployment Management Environments

An Deployment Management environment is composed of a unique combination of server, client, database, and file system data that represent one logical group.

The environment server represents the main host machine for the environment. This machine may be of any platform type; for example, UNIX� or Windows�. Typically, the server is a UNIX machine that also hosts the database for this environment.

The environment client represents a remote client machine that also serves to identify the specified environment. The client is typically defined if users are doing multiplatform development in a client/server environment, with some development done on UNIX, and some on Windows Server. The client can be a file server that stores client code accessed by users. Many programs, such as transactional forms, have both client and server components; for example, the user interface code and the database objects, respectively. Figure 1-8. Sample environment shows an example of information displayed in the Environment window.