Installing, updating, rolling back, and uninstalling the Application Client for IBM WebSphere Application Server on IBM i operating systems

The Application Client provides resources and clients to aid development of client applications for use with WebSphere Application Server. The Application Client is a source for the clients (as runtime frameworks) for client applications, either to run on the Application Client machine or to be distributed with client applications that are to run on other machines.

To assemble some types of client applications, you need to install the client that provides the framework for the client application. Instead of installing WebSphere Application Server, you can install the Application Client feature, which provides the same resources and clients to aid development of client applications.

Similarly, running some types of client applications for use with WebSphere Application Server requires that the associated client is deployed with the client application. For client applications that only need a small fraction of the Application Client, you can install the Application Client onto a convenient machine, such as the machine used to develop the client application, then package the client application with only the clients that it needs. For example, this means that a standalone client application is deployed on only the required fraction of the clients provided with the Application Client.