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You deploy your application from the workstation to another platform by way
of packaging. Once the workstation application is ready to
be delivered to a target platform, you use the packaging process to create a
runtime image according to a set of packaging rules. These rules are a
combination of a standard set associated with the development tools and a set
that you define. The image created by the packaging process contains
only the objects it needs to run in its intended environment.
VisualAge Smalltalk Server allows you to package your application image
into a single module or as part of a dual module configuration.
Currently, OS/400 only supports the packaging of images into single
files.
This section uses the following terms:
- Development image
- The image that you interact with, typically through a graphical user
interface (GUI) that contains the development tools and environment.
- Passive image
- The image containing the set of Smalltalk applications and classes that
are targeted to be run in an environment other than the development
environment.
- Current image
- The image on which all tools are currently set to operate. There
can only be one current image at any time. During development, the
current image is normally the development image. When packaging for a
target environment, the current image will be the appropriate passive
image.
- Runtime image
- The packaged image that can be run on the target platform.
- Packaging instruction
- The object used to control the build process without becoming part of the
delivered application. The packaging instruction is analogous to the
3GL concept of a makefile or a build script.
For OS/390 applications, IBM supplies the following Smalltalk virtual
machine modules for your use. In most cases, you will find that these
modules contain all the information you need to run your applications.
Each of the modules supports applications using DB2, APPC, CPI-C, MQSeries,
TCP/IP, and call-in support.
- ABT.V4R5M0.SABTLOAD(ABTBV145)
- The Smalltalk virtual machine to be used with OS/390 Native
applications.
- ABT.V4R5M0.SABTLOAD(ABTCV145)
- The Smalltalk virtual machine to be used with CICS/ESA applications
packaged as a single module.
- ABT.V4R5M0.SABTLOAD(ABTIV145)
- The Smalltalk virtual machine to be used with IMS/ESA applications
packaged as a single module.
- ABT.V4R5M0.SABTLOAD(ABTIQ145)
- The Smalltalk virtual machine to be used with IMS/ESA applications
packaged as a single module for use with a message processing program (MPP)
for MQSeries.
The following major topics are available:
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