The Deployment layer enables you to manage your deployment environments for servers and connections, including staging, user acceptance, performance, and production.
Model Description Language elements
-
Environment - An environment represents physical system configurations and combines server and connection settings into one convenient file.
-
Server - A server specifies it's type (for example, Generic for NexJ Server) and various other settings to support deployment.
-
Connections - Connections contain deployment settings for data sources and channels.
-
Properties - not actually part of the XML specification. Simple properties file to manage settings more efficiently in environments, servers, and connections.
-
Deployment - Represents a cluster of specialized servers and environments.
-
Test - A server test script used for performance and functional testing.