Before you start
Although you have used and tested your user-defined node on your local computer, you must make its associated files available on other computers when it is ready to be used throughout your broker domain. A user-defined node consists of two sets of files:
The workbench representation consists of a set of resources that have been created as an Eclipse plug-in. To package the plug-in so that it can be distributed to other computers:
The compressed file is saved at the location that you specified. Java source code that you developed within the project is included in the compressed file. You can add your C source code or compiled files to the compressed file using any file compression utility. You then have a self-contained package that you can distribute.
To distribute the workbench files, continue with Installing a user-defined extension to current and past versions of the broker. To distribute the runtime components, see Installing user-defined extension runtime files on a broker.
For installation on another system, see Installing a user-defined extension to current and past versions of the broker.
To distribute your node commercially, see the PDE Guide for information about issues such as versioning and updating your user-defined node.