Deployment considerations

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In order to build and deploy an application containing an Rogue Wave® JViews Charts component, you need to first consider the required deployment path and the functional type of the application.

Deployment paths

The deployment paths available are:

Swing application

Eclipse®/RCP application

JavaScript thin-client application

JavaScript-based JSF application

This section discusses the Swing application path.

An Eclipse/RCP application with JViews Charts is implemented like a Swing application, with additional considerations explained in Using JViews products in Eclipse RCP applications.

For discussions of the thin-client deployment path, see Developing JViews Charts JavaScript Web applications in Building Web Applications.

For discussions of JavaScript-based deployment path, see Developing JViews Charts JavaScript Web applications in Building Web Applications.

NOTE Items on the Interactions tab of the Designer, such as scroll bar options, do not work in thin-client environments. For information on using interactors with thin clients, see Installing interactors in a chart.

Functional application types

The functional type of the application influences the choice of deployment path.

There are two functional types of application:

Display and navigation, providing different views of data but no other interaction

Editing, with a graphical editor that provides update capabilities

If you are building a display and navigation application, you can deploy it as a Swing application or a thin client.

If you are building a graphical editor, you can deploy it as a Swing application.