The view server together with the application components connected to it can be linked into a single process or can be distributed across a network. This choice has no impact on the architecture of your Rogue Wave® Server application or on the way the object model instances or the views are implemented. The interface between a view server and its components is defined by the generic representation protocol.

Defining dynamic view types is independent of how you build the server and component executable files. Dynamic-view types are specified in separate files, called view specification files, which are loaded at runtime by the dynamic view server. See Implementing a Dynamic View Server and its Components for more information.

You can start a view server as soon as its object model is implemented by including a set of macros that declare this model to a server model interpreter, which gives runtime access to the server model, allowing dynamic-view types to be interpreted. See Defining Runtime Access to the Server Model for more information.