Component Deployment: IFIP/ACM Working Conference, CD 2002, Berlin, Germany, June 20-21, 2002, Proceedings

Deployment is the act of taking components and readying them for productive use. There may be steps following deployment, such as installation or m— agement related functions, but all decisions about how to configure and c— pose/assemble a component are made at the deployment stage. This is therefore the one opportunity in the software lifecycle to bridge the gap between what the component developer couldn’t know about the deployment environment and what the environment’s developer couldn’t...