Promoting Components

As mentioned earlier, there are three common ways to promote packages from development to Q/A and on to production. You can use EAServer to generate a Jaguar JAR, you can manually build a ZIP file to extract on another server, or you can use EAServer synchronization. The following section describes how to implement each of these techniques.

Promoting Using Jaguar JAR

Jaguar Manager enables you to easily export and import Jaguar JAR files. These files are a collection of things that make up an entity. This can be a Jaguar application, a package, a Web application, or a connector. It is proprietary to Jaguar and can be imported only into EAServer. To export a package to a JAR, simply highlight the package and right-click; then ...

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