Building Distributed
Applications
Using the Progress AppServer
Customizing the Application Server Process Executable
The Progress AppServer includes a standard Application Server process executable that, in most cases, requires no customizing. However, you might have special needs that require you to add more software modules (configurable elements) to the executable. For example, the Application Server process might be using a Progress DataServer to connect to a non-Progress database. In this case, you must include the appropriate DataServer when building the executable.
The Application Server process executable is essentially a version of the Progress 4GL client. Like the 4GL client, you can rebuild the Application Server process executable using the PROBUILD utility.
Thus, to build a new Application Server process executable and make it available to your AppServer installation:
- Run the Progress PROBUILD utility.
- Select PROGRESS APPSERVER from the Product List.
- Specify names for the executable and its link script.
- Select the configurable elements that you want to include in the new executable.
- Create the link script and exit the PROBUILD utility.
- Build the executable using the link script according to your development platform (NT or UNIX) requirements.
- Specify the pathname for your new Application Server process executable using the Progress Explorer GUI or by setting the
srvrExecFile
property in the AppServer properties file (ubroker.properties
).For more information on building an Application Server process executable, see the sections on PROBUILD in the Progress Client Deployment Guide. For more information on specifying the pathname for the Application Server process executable, see the "Configuring AppServer Components" section.
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