The Jazz™ technology
platform is
based on a client-server architecture. The Jazz Team Server,
normally running on a secured server-class machine, hosts a set of
services and a repository. Remote clients communicate with the Jazz Team Server over
the network using HTTP.
Remote clients
Remote clients come in many
forms, with the typical one being an integrated development environment
(IDE) such as Eclipse. Other remote clients, such as Jazz-specific
command line tools or Ant scripts, operate without a graphical interface.
Jazz Web clients access the server directly using a web browser, without
having to install any Jazz platform software on their machine.
The Jazz Team Server
The Jazz Team Server is
a Java-based web application that runs within any Java EE 1.4 compliant
application server. Two different application servers are supported
in this release: Apache Tomcat and IBM® WebSphere® Application
Server.
Apache Tomcat is an open source servlet container which can be installed
on desktop class machines. IBM WebSphere Application
Server is
a commercially available product offering solutions at various scales.