Chapter 7. Distributing our application

7.1 Preparing for distribution
7.2 FTP-based distribution of a packaged application
7.3 Email-based distribution of a packaged application
7.4 Secure distribution with SSH and SCP
7.5 HTTP download
7.6 Distribution over multiple channels
7.7 Summary

Ant is now compiling, testing, and running our diary library. We can now do two things with the library: distribute it or deploy it. What does that mean? For us, distribution is the act of delivering a project’s artifact to one or more recipients. This delivery may be direct, via email or a shared file system, or it may be through a web site. Deployment is the problem of bringing up a functional application on a working computer, and is what often happens ...

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