Usually, EBF/ESD releases of Data Provider for the same release level (major and minor) are binary-compatible with the previous release. It is possible for such updates to preclude rebuilding your application. If you do not want to rebuild and redeploy your applications for each update to Data Provider, you can use application configuration or Publisher policy files. Sybase usually includes a Publisher policy file in the ESD/EBF releases with the appropriate redirection. See the ESD/EDF documentation for information on backward-compatibility issues.
