John R. Hines

The term deploy describes the process of installing the pieces of an application to a host and making whatever modifications are required to the host environment so the application runs correctly without further modifications. A patch is a group of Java class files, one or more documentation files, and one or more batch files that installs them to modify the behavior of a deployed program. Deploying a Java application, particularly a distributed Java application, is a complex task, since applications typically require installing a number of jar files and batch files (sometimes to different locations) as well as making changes in the host's environment. Most developers create a custom install program to simplify deployment. (Usually the developer employs a deployment program builder like InstallAnywhere to create the program.) Generating the install program is time c... (more)