An OO framework for configuration of deployable large component based Software Products
Abstract :
Software Deployment is a new field of SCM which encompasses the post development activities (configuration, installation adaptation and activation) of a software product. Component based Software and the Internet offer new research issues. The new challenge is the automatic execution and management of this process. Based on this, deployment processes can be enacted and monitored in an efficient manner.
In this paper we try to clarify the issues involved in Software deployment process and mainly on model requirements to describe environments, dependencies and requisite actions. The context is Software products based component. As part of a large system we are building, we consider in this paper the requirements for the first step of this process related to configuration issues. This kind of software introduces new complexities to configuration management.
We propose a model to describe and (re) configure software for delivery and a configuration process with self-check so that the intended configuration is correctly built before delivery. These are provided by an OO framework we implemented.
