There are two editions of Sybase Central: one edition runs on Windows, and the other is a Java application that runs on both Windows and UNIX systems. The Replication Server plug-in runs within the Windows edition of Sybase Central, while Replication Manager runs within the Java edition of Sybase Central.
Both Sybase Central for Windows and Sybase Central, Java edition, provide a desktop product that users navigate using a central viewer. The Windows and Java versions can run on the same Windows box and manage the same replication environment.
Sybase integrates its systems management tools into one desktop product, Sybase Central, Java edition. Each server product, such as Replication Server or Adaptive Server, is managed by a service provider plug-in that coexists with other service providers in the Sybase Central framework.
Using Replication Manager, you can manage the replication environment from Sybase Central, Java edition. In general, Replication Manager is designed to manage both warm standby environments and environments that use the Multi-site availability (MSA) feature of Replication Server for replication of entire databases or for enabling warm standby.
Sybase Central for Windows is very similar to Sybase Central, Java edition. Using the Replication Server plug-in, you can manage the replication environment from Sybase Central for Windows.
The Replication Server plug-in is a management and monitoring tool for many types of replication environments including the following:
Warm standby
Single primary and multiple primaries
Single replicate and multiple replicates
Heterogeneous replication
