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Chapter 2About FMU
Overview
This chapter will introduce you to the concepts of FMU. You will find infor-
mation that will help you to understand FMU’s technology and interface. You
will also find explanations of groups, packages and files and how FMU uses
them to provide an easy-to-use automated system for configuring terminals.
You will learn how you can update a few terminals in a local environment, or
numerous terminals in multiple remote locations.
This section covers the following topics:
•“FMU’s Technology” on page 11
•“User Interface” on page 13
•“FMU Components” on page 15
•“Menu” on page 18
•“Toolbar” on page 23

FMU’s Technology

Microsoft
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.NET Framework
FMU was developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework, which provides
an environment for extensibility. Future revisions of FMU will allow the FMU
Server components to be deployed on different platforms, as well as to inter-
face with different wireless devices.
The Common Language Runtime provided by Microsoft to run applications
is supported on a wide variety of devices. This simplifies the task of creating
one application to run on multiple devices, making development fast and effi-
cient. The Runtime also has security features which greatly enhance software
reliability.