Upgrade Guide - Prolifics

Upgrading the Operating Environmentextensive reworking as it was folded into JAM 7. The appearance of your graphicalapplication after conversion will most likely be different than it was before, so youshould examine each screen carefully and manually adjust them as necessary.Full UpgradeFinally, you might want to fully upgrade your application to JAM 7. Here, yourapplication must be extensively modified to take full advantage of the advancedfeatures provided in JAM 7. At this time, fully upgrading an application is a manualprocess.Which Path is Best for My Application?The best way to decide which path to follow is to read through the rest of this chapter,keeping in mind the specifics of your application and the upgrade options available.We first cover the steps that are common to all upgrade paths, and then branch intosome of the more advanced upgrade steps.Upgrading the Operating EnvironmentFirst of all, there are several steps common to each of the methods. These steps mustbe performed for all upgrades.Update Your Configuration FilesJAM 7 is distributed with new configuration files. If you modified any of these files inprevious releases, you must reevaluate and transfer the changes into the newenvironment. You can edit the ASCII version of these files directly." keyfile" message fileUpgrade Guide 4-3