This page provides a starting point for finding information about application clients and client applications. Application clients provide a framework on which application code runs, so that your client applications can access information on the application server.
For example, an insurance company can use application clients to help offload work on the server and to perform specific tasks. Suppose an insurance agent wants to access and compile daily reports. The reports are based on insurance rates that are located on the server. The agent can use application clients to access the application server where the insurance rates are located. More introduction...
This topic provides debugging tips for resolving common Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application client problems. To use this troubleshooting guide, review the trace entries for one of the Java EE application client exceptions, and then locate the exception in the guide.
You can add tracing and logging to help analyze performance and diagnose problems with stand-alone clients.