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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using streaming deployment


Streaming a ThinApp package means the package is hosted on the network and the clients access the packaged application over the network. The application is executed on the local client. So ThinApp streaming is nothing like Server Based Computing (SBC) where the word streaming is often being used as well. In SBC, the execution of the application happens on the server backend and only screen updates are sent to the clients. Commonly used Server Based Computing systems include Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Terminal Server/RDS.

When a user clicks on a ThinApp package, the ThinApp runtime is downloaded to the client in whole. The ThinApp runtime is approximately 600 KB so this happens very quickly. When downloaded, the runtime executes and creates the awareness of the virtual environment. It is not like the whole virtual environment is downloaded, but the runtime makes sure it loads the filesystem database and virtual registry. Then the source of the entry point is executed...