Package design and generation

摘要

Solution packages for a product for deployment on a collection of servers can be designed using one or more designers that provide user interfaces for visually arranging and configuring elements of the product. A package object model includes a managed object model that represents a package or feature manifest as defined by a product manifest XML schema. The object model can be used to create references to other project item and feature definitions. The extended object model can be used to generate an equivalent package or feature manifest XML file.

主权项

1. At a computer system, the computer system including a processor, a method of preparing an application for deployment, the method comprising:
presenting the structure of an application package through an arrangement of one or more visual elements; altering the structure of the application package by altering application package element references associated with the arrangement of one or more visual elements; the processor transforming the altered structure of the application package into one or more manifest files by traversing the altered structure of the application package in accordance with the altered application package element references; and bundling the one or more manifest files into a deployment format expected by product deployment software.