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Resolved pbcefclient.exe

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  1. Mickey Hillel
    Mickey Hillel
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  3. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 07:07 AM UTC

Hi,

We're running a PB19 R3 application on our production server, with a webbrowser object.

I see that multiple copies of pbcefclient are opening, basically one(or more) for each of our users.

Could someone please explain what this exe is for. 

I did not use runtime application packager deployment , just copied the relevant dll's to our runtime environment.

 

TIA,

Mickey Hillel

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Mickey Hillel
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  1. Thursday, 8 July 2021 06:09 AM UTC
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  3. # 1

OK, got it,

Thanks all for your replies.

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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 14:33 PM UTC
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Hi, Mickey -

In regards to your comment about documentation... it's there (kind of), but you really have to dig for it.

In the PB 2019 R3 Help topic "runtime files", there is a table under the section heading "Additional runtime files". The third row in this table lists the runtime files related to the Chromium-based webbrowser control, which states:

pbwebbrowser.dll (and its dependent DLLs: chrome_elf.dll, d3dcompiler_43.dll, d3dcompiler_47.dll, libEGL.dll, libGLESv2.dll, libcef.dll, swiftshader/libEGL.dll, swiftshader/libGLESv2.dll) (and "pbcef" folder)

This folder is where pbcefclient.exe resides.

Best regards,
John

 
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Mickey Hillel
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  1. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 09:36 AM UTC
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I think that the fact that the webbrowser uses pbcefclient.exe  should be documented. I could not find any information on this.

Also, I noticed that our app opens multiple instances of the exe - I've seen already one user with 4 instances. Any explanation as to why? Is there a destroy that I'm missing?

see attached of multiple exe, single user.

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 10:46 AM UTC
Hi Mickey,

You can ask the support team, but personally I don't feel that every EXE and DLL dependency should be documented by Appeon. Maybe they can give you some list or further explanation though.



I guess that it opens up the executable for each webbrowser control that you are using.

regards
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Mickey Hillel
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  1. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:12 AM UTC
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So that means it's normal for this exe to run for every user that runs the app?

Our anti-virus is going crazy trying to kill the pbcefclient.exe...

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:18 AM UTC
Yes, I guess so. Maybe the antivirus could have something to do with it.

I'd advice to create a support ticked.
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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:18 AM UTC
Yes, I guess so. Maybe the antivirus could have something to do with it.

I'd advice to create a support ticked.
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Miguel Leeuwe
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  1. Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:08 AM UTC
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The new webbrowser is based on an opensource project: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/

I hope that answers your question.

regards

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