There is a certain source of misunderstanding with the terms "Developer Web Client" and "Mobile Web Client". As this chapter discusses the installation of both varieties of the Siebel client software, we try to distinguish them as follows.
Once the Siebel client software is installed, an executable named siebel.exe
will be present on the machine. This executable reads a text file with a suffix of .cfg
, which is known as the client configuration file.
The configuration file contains data source definitions that allow the Siebel executable to connect to different databases. When the database is present on the same machine as the executable and can therefore be accessed without any network connectivity, the client is considered a "Mobile Web Client". The mobile mode is only supported with Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere databases and is widely used to support remote users. The Siebel Remote module provides the necessary functionality to create and synchronize...