Agentry Editor supports two types of publishing: Development and Production. Which you select correlates to which stage you are in the application development lifecycle. Files generated during a publish are compressed by default. You can change this and other publish settings in Eclipse Agentry Editor Preferences.
During the development phase, you publish to a development server for testing purposes. The first time you publish, all files are written to a location on the development server. Subsequent development publishes overwrite only the files that have changed.
When development and testing are complete, you can perform a production publish, which creates a zip file of all specified application files, which you can then import in to SAP Mobile Platform Server. A production publish enables you to indicate a version number, which must increment during subsequent production publishes. You can also include additional project files, such as Java resource files, application-specific DLL files, JAR files for the back end, and other back-end configuration files.