Application Deployment Overview

When deploying an application, Netscape Application Server (NAS) installs all the application's files and registers all its components on the destination server. An application must be deployed before it can be used.

Before deploying an application, bundle its files into a JAR file or package. A package contains information about the application files, such as their type and destination directory. When deploying the package, the bundled application files are automatically distributed to their appropriate directories on one or more servers.

For example, Java files, computational files, and query files are automatically sent to the applications directory of the application server. At the same time, Web server files, such as HTML pages, are automatically deployed to a user-defined directory on the Web server. In addition, the JSP files that reside on the application server, rather than on the Web server, are deployed to their proper directory.