Chapter 11. Packaging and Delivery
When a tailor has taken all of the measurements of his or her customer, he or she cuts pieces of cloth according to the agreed style. However, 36 pieces of cloth do not make a jacket—just like 36 individual ADF Libraries do not make up an application.
What remains is to sew all of the parts together into one deliverable package for installation—first, on your test environment, and then on your production environment. This package should include your executable code, any database scripts, and the necessary documentation.
After each cycle of test and rework, you need to create a new deliverable package until it passes all of the tests. Then, the same package goes to the operations staff to be installed in the preproduction or production environment. In case your package does not install cleanly on this environment, you can go back to the drawing board, fix the code or the documentation, and create a new package.
This deployment happens from the master application...
