Administering Client Applications

Integration Partners interface with the Whitebeam system using the Site Management Application (the "dashboard"). This provides a browser based user interface to maintain Clients, their URLs and to control their sites.

An application comprising ordinary static (.html/.htm) and dynamic (.rhtm) pages is transferred to a staging area on the Whitebeam system using conventional FTP. When the FTP connection is terminated a background task moves the uploaded files to a "test instance" of the Client's site. This site is a completely separate from their production site with a different URL used to test the new version of the application without affecting the live site. The dashboard also gives the Partner the ability to copy the live site data to the test instance so that real data can be used to give the best test coverage.

When the Partner and Client are happy with the new version of the application it can be made "live" through a command available from the dashboard.