E: Upgrading FTL Clients

Your application programs with Release 5.x libraries can continue as clients after migrating FTL services to Release 6.x. That is, FTL services from Release 6.x are backward compatible with earlier client libraries. Nonetheless, it is good practice to upgrade clients to new libraries as soon as possible to take advantage of code corrections. To upgrade clients, complete this task.

1. Install Release 6.x on client host computers.
2. Restart client programs.
   In place of primary and secondary realm server URLs, supply client programs with a pipe-separated list of URLs of FTL servers that provide realm services. For example:

   https://host:port|https://host:port|https://host:port

   Note: Release 5.4 client libraries support pipe-separated URL lists as command line arguments. Although it is good practice to upgrade to Release 6.x first, you could do this step before upgrading the client library.

   Note: In Release 6.x the default FTL server port is 8585. (The default port in earlier releases was 8080.)