The animation server communicates with the target over a TCP/IP connection. Each animation connection requires its own unique port number, which is set in the rhapsody.ini file. The framework inserts the same port number into the connection port of the instrumented application.
The instrumented application can run on either the same machine as IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® (the host) or a remote target. The following illustration shows the relationship of these components to each other.
