摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method of creation of a software appliance remarkable in that it comprises at least the step of modelling the software appliance. Said step of modelling comprises the step of defining the following set of categories: Install Profile which is a description of the software used to install the Operating System that allows users to streamline the installation process of the Software Appliance to suit their needs, OS Profile which is a description of the OS packages that are installed as part of the Software Stack, said OS Profile 6 being based on an already known OS distribution and containing the packages the Software Appliance needs to support the Infrastructure and Application layers, Projects which is a description of all the open source middleware or third-party products and projects that this Software Appliance contains, My Packages which is a description of any additional packages added by the user to construct the Software Appliance, The Appliance Profile which is a set of meta-data providing an overall description of the Software Appliance, such as owner and/or company information and/or licence.
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