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Mobile Web Client

The Mobile Web Client is a laptop computer that a professional in the field uses. For brevity, this book refers to the Mobile Web Client generically as the remote client, and the person who uses the remote client as the user. The local database and file system on the remote client contains specific data and files that Siebel Remote downloads from the server database and the Siebel File System. To synchronize this local database and file system with the server database and file system that reside on the Siebel Server, the remote client must periodically connect to a Siebel Server.

The Siebel application that runs on a remote client runs in a standard Web browser. The architecture layers of a Siebel application, including the local database and file system, reside on the remote client and run business logic locally. This architecture requires you to install Siebel CRM on each client computer.

The remote client includes a lightweight HTTP listener that listens on a dynamic port for HTTP requests from the local computer. Siebel Remote ignores requests from other computers on the network. Minimal security risk exists when the user uses the Siebel application on the network.

Client Usage in a Test Environment

The software that you install for the Mobile Web Client is the same as the software that you install for the Developer Web Client in earlier releases. Oracle only supports the Developer Web Client in a test environment. The installation program requires more input to install a Developer Web Client than it does to install a Mobile Web Client. If you do all the setup steps for the Mobile Web Client, including registering the user as a Mobile Web Client and extracting a local database, then a Developer Web Client can function as a Mobile Web Client in a test environment. To do this, it uses the local database and local Siebel File System. If you make certain modifications to the configuration (CFG) file, then a Mobile Web Client can function as a Developer Web Client in a test environment. To do this, it uses test versions of the server database and the Siebel File System.