Deploying Mobile Deployment Packages while Creating a Deployment Profile

Deploy a mobile deployment package and optionally create a deployment profile to store a deployment scenario that can be executed multiple times.

Prerequisites

A connection profile to at least one Unwired Server must be available before you deploy mobile deployment packages to a server.

Task

Following these instructions you can:

  • Deploy a mobile deployment package without creating a deployment profile, Or
  • Deploy a mobile deployment package and create a reusable deployment profile.

    If you deploy a mobile deployment package without creating a deployment profile, the settings are retained and used during subsequent deployments. For example, deployment mode (Replication based or Message based).

  1. Launch the Mobile Deployment Package wizard by Right-clicking the mobile deployment package ( the file with the .pkg extension) and selecting Deploy Package.
  2. Enter the deployment mode for the package, a target version (including the package namespace), select whether the package uses message-based or replication-based synchronization, and click Next.
  3. Select a target Unwired server for the package, connect to it, select the domain and security configuration (if not using the default), and click Next.
  4. (Optional) Map connection profile to server connection. Allows you to map connection profiles used for development to an appropriate server-side connection. For example, your development environment might permit access to certain systems that the Unwired Server prohibits. To map the connection profile to a server connection select the connection profile from the list of available connection profiles then select the corresponding server connection to which it maps.
  5. Map logical roles to physical roles. Click Next.
  6. (Optional) Specify the name and location for the new deployment profile:
    • Select Save the deployment settings as a deployment profile – if you do not save your settings to a deployment profile, they are lost when you exit the Deploy Package wizard.
    • Enter or select the parent folder – by default, Deployment is the folder in which the deployment profile is saved.
    • File name – the name of this deployment profile. The deployment profile is assigned a .deploy extension.
  7. Click Finish to deploy the mobile deployment package to the Unwired server's Packages folder, and save the information in a deployment profile.