Deployment Types

The act of creating an application by itself does not specify sufficient instruction for carrying out deployment of the application. Deployment types provide additional detail for how a given application should be handled in various situations, such as what type of action to take when the application is being deployed to various types of devices or users. In addition, a deployment type also describes mechanisms to detect whether an application is already installed or command lines needed to remove an application. The deployment type is created when building an application through the Create Application Wizard, so the difference between
the application itself and the deployment type may not be clear. Figure 

 

shows the General Information tab for the application definition. The Deployment Types tab, which will list all configured deployment types for the application, is also visible in above Figure .

Below Figure  shows the properties of a sample deployment type. The process of building deployment types will be detailed shortly.