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Service-applications for a Workstation with Linux

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Last revision of this document:
2005-05-19

Service-applications are programs, which do not directly belong to the operating-system of a computer.
Nevertheless, service-applications are requiered to perform business-applications.
Usually service-applications are not visible to a standard-user.

Prerequisites:
The installation of the operating-system (RedHat**-Linux** 7.1 or RedHat**-Linux** 9) as decribed in the document 'Installation of a workstation with the operating-system RedHat**-Linux** 7.1' respectively 'Installation of a workstation with the operating-system RedHat**-Linux** 9' was performed successfully.

Installed service-applications:

Mounting of directories on a remote computer

The described procedures install scripts that mount directories on a remote computer so that they can be accessed like directories on the local harddisk.

Java-Runtime-Environment

Java is a programming language which was developed with the intention, that programs written in Java can be executed on computers with different operating-systems.
In contrast to other programming-languages programs written in Java do not need special coding for a particular operating-system.
To enable the execution of Java-program on a particular operating-system, a Java-Runtime-Environment (JRE) or a Java-Development-Kit (JDK) must be installed as a service.

Databases

Databases store data on a storage-medium (e.g. the harddisk of the computer and allow to search and retrieve the stored data according to specified criteria.