4D v20.1
Deployment principles
- 4D Design Reference
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- Finalizing and deploying final applications
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- Deployment principles
- Application builder
- Compiled structure page
- Application page
- Client/Server page
- Plugins and components page
- Licenses & Certificate page
- Data file management in final applications
- Management of connections by client applications
- Automatic updating of server or single-user applications
- Customizing a stand-alone application icon
Deployment principles
4D includes a final application builder. This builder simplifies the finalization and deployment process for 4D compiled applications. It automatically handles the specific features of different operating systems, in particular the building of software packages under Mac OS, and facilitates the deployment of client-server applications.
The application builder allows you to:
- Build a compiled database, without interpreted code,
- Build a stand-alone, double-clickable application, i.e., merged with 4D Volume Desktop, the 4D database engine,
- Build different applications from the same compiled database via an XML project,
- Build homogeneous client-server applications,
- Build client-server applications with automatic updating of client and server parts.
Note for 4D Server: Application building is available only from the 4D single-user version.
Deployment possibilities for 4D databases are summarized in the following diagram:
Product: 4D
Theme: Finalizing and deploying final applications
4D Design Reference ( 4D v20)
4D Design Reference ( 4D v20.1)
