Web Client R11

 

Architectural changes

The current version introduces changes both in the technology and in the client setup.


Microsoft Java Virtual Machine has been replaced by .NET Framework 3.0 both on the server and on the client.


The server side components are compatible with Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2.

The client is now compatible also with Windows 7 x86 and x64.


The client does not run inside Internet Explorer and has become a client application that can be installed fron an msi installation package.


This choice was caused mainly by two reasons:

  1. With .NET Microsoft tightened the security for .NET objects running inside a browser compared to the previous ActiveX technology and changed their policy on access to local resources, which the client needs

  2. The fragmentation of the browser market is such that we received requests to integrate the client in at least 3 more browsers, which we could not do in a matter of months.


We do not exclude that in the future we will test new technologies to simplify the setup or start from inside a browser with a few restrictions, but that will not be in the current version.