Application clients

Application clients provide an alternative to Web-based clients that are accessed with a Web browser. Application clients allow server-side resources such as enterprise beans, data sources, Java Message Server resources, and JavaMail resources to be accessed from a client application that runs on a local or remote machine. Additionally, application clients can be used to construct more robust graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that are not possible when using Web based clients.

To develop and deploy application clients, see these topics:

Application clients overview
Before you get started with application clients, read this topic for an overview of application clients, the types of supported application clients, and description of client functions.

Install the application client runtime support
If you are planning to run your application clients on a workstation or an iSeries system on which the WAS product is not installed, first install the required runtime support.

Develop and deploy the application client
See this topic for tips and examples about writing application clients for WAS and deploying your application clients.