Selecting your clients

You must determine what clients are needed for each site to plan the deployment and to ensure your licensing needs are met.

Each client has its own benefits and overhead. Some deployment models may use all the clients depending on licensing strategy, lab locations, performance needs, and user needs and expertise. Although the following is not an exhaustive description of each client, this information is intended to provide an idea of the impact on deployment each client will have.

For more information about the licensing needs of these clients, see Managing licenses with Rational Common Licensing

Table 1. Client impact on deployment
Client Impact
Rational® ClearQuest® Client - An Eclipse based standalone application. No impact. This client is installed by default and does not require any configuration.
Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse - An Eclipse plugin that can be installed into an existing supported Eclipse IDE. This client requires the user to install additional plugins before installing the client. These additional plugins may vary depending on what their Eclipse IDE is already being used for.
Rational ClearQuest Web - Web based application This client requires dedicated server resources but does not require users to install Rational ClearQuest
Rational ClearQuest client for Windows - Windows based application This client is installed by default and does not require any configuration.
For more information about these clients, see the corresponding content sections for each client:

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