Deploying a Rich Client Application - IBM i (Magic xpa 3.x)
To be able to deploy a Rich Client application on IBM i platforms:
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The following files and folders are created once you use the Rich Client Deployment Builder:
appname\appname.application
appname\appname.publish.html
appname\mgxpaRIA_x_y_z_www\ appname\Images\
x,y,z represents the Magic xpa version and www is a unique number representing the specific version
a. Place them in the MagicRIAApplications/appname alias on the Web server.
b. Users can access the application from the following URL: http://appserver/MagicRIAApplications/appname/appname.publish.html.
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Add the following into the httpd.conf Apache configuration file in this order:
AddType application/x-ms-application .application
AddType application/x-ms-application .manifest
AddType application/octet-stream deploy
AddType application/x-msdownload .dll
AddHandler default-handler .jpg .gif .js .txt .bat .msi
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Manually change the HTTPCompressionLevel in the application's publish.html file to None, since there is no compression when the server is a non-Windows platform.
For example:
<body onload="initialize()">
<xml id="rcExecProps">
<properties>
<property key="protocol" val="http"/>
<property key="server" val="SYSTEM:PORT"/>
<property key="requester" val="/ServerDir/mgrqcgi031"/>
<property key="appname" val="frame"/>
<property key="prgname" val="START"/>
<property key="arguments" val=""/>
<property key="envvars" val=""/>
<property key="UseWindowsXPThemes" val="Y"/>
<property key="HTTPCompressionLevel" val="None"/>
<property key="DisplayStatisticInformation" val="N"/>
<property key="InternalLogLevel" val=""/>
<property key="InternalLogFile" val=""/>
<property key="InternalLogSync" val="Session"/>
<property key="LogClientSequenceForActivityMonitor" val="N"/>
</properties>
</xml>
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Where
SYSTEM:PORT – System Name. Example: "POWER6.MSE.CORP:8080"
ServerDir – Installation directory. Example: MAGICXPA31
