OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor Technical Committee

OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor Technical Committee

See http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-04-30-a.html

"The OASIS Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) Technical Committee will continue work on a technology formerly called the Installable Unit Deployment Descriptor (IUDD) schema. It is documented in a June 2004 Member Submission to W3C from IBM and Novell, co-authored by InstallShield Software and Zero G Software, presented under the name Solution Installation Schema."

"The technical activity and its deliverables will be of interest to "ISVs and independent developers who wish to create software packages for managed or unmanaged environments, and to internal corporate software development organizations. IT staff who need to manage deployment and lifecycle within their infrastructure and software consumers who want reliable and predictable software installation and lifecycle may have a stake in the work. The specifications will be used by developers of tooling which is used either for packaging of software for installation or used in the process of software life-cycle management."

"A solution, in the context of 'Solution Deployment Descriptor', is "any combination of products, components, or application artifacts addressing a particular user requirement. This includes what would traditionally be referred to as a product offering (e.g., a database product), as well as a solution offering (e.g., a business integration platform comprising multiple integrated products), or a user application (e.g., a set of application artifacts like J2EE applications and database definitions). All the software constituents of a solution can be represented by a single Solution Deployment Descriptor (SDD) as a hierarchy of installable unit aggregates."

The fulls specification of the IUDD is available at http://www.w3.org/Submission/2004/SUBM-InstallableUnit-PF-20040712/

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Topics Wp2

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