Deployment Design in a Nutshell

This section succinctly summarizes what was discussed in Chapter 4 and other chapters of this book. It assumes a previous reading of the whole book.

To design a deployment circuit for a Java application is a complex task that involves many considerations. Here, we will describe briefly the main decisions involved. For a complete discussion, see the chapters of Part II, “Deployment Engineering,” especially Chapter 4.

Three-Step Procedure

To reduce it to the bare essentials, we can think of the deployment design activity as a three-step sequence, in which deployment engineers have to define exactly the wanted deployment services, how to implement them in Java, and implement the planned deployment circuit using the ...

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