Graphical overview of development and production environments

The following diagram illustrates how the PolicyCenter development and production environment interact.

Dotted lines indicate actions that you perform. For example, you create a WAR or EAR file from your configured development environment and move it to the production server.

To assist with this development and testing process, Guidewire bundles the following with the PolicyCenter application:

• A QuickStart development server
• A QuickStart database
• A QuickStart test server that you cannot control
• A QuickStart test database that is separate from the QuickStart database

Guidewire bundles the QuickStart test server and test database for testing. These components are internally controlled. You can use either the bundled QuickStart development server bundled with PolicyCenter or use an external application server such as Tomcat. If you use the QuickStart method, then the default development server is Jetty and the database is H2. Guidewire does not support the QuickStart application server or database for a production environment.