Follow these steps to quickly archive and deploy applications and services.
Your applications and/or services are created and tested. You have created an external
configuration file for each application or service.
This procedure provides you with a quick start to archiving. For a full understanding of
what Genero archiving offers, please read all archiving topics.
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Consolidate all necessary files under a root directory.
Within this directory, you can have sub-directories as needed to assist with the organization
of your files.
Note: When you create the archive, you will specify a root directory only. All files
and directories within that directory will be included in the archive. If you wish to add a subset
of the files in a directory, you can use another zip tool to create the file. See
Create a Genero Archive.
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Create a MANIFEST file.
See The MANIFEST file.
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Update the application's configuration file (xcf) to set all resources
relative to the resource res.deployment.path. See Create a Genero Archive.
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Create the archive file.
See Create a Genero Archive.
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Deploy the archive file.
If you are on the application server, you deploy with the gasadmin command.
See Deploy an archive.
If you are on a remote computer, you deploy with a tool such as curl. See Genero Archive deployment service.
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Enable the archive.
See Activate (enable) a deployed archive.
The applications and services included in the archive are available for your end
users.