Publishing to Production

When you are ready to perform final quality assurance testing or need to deploy the application to users, you perform a production publish in the Agentry Editor, which zips the application files in preparation for importing in to SAP Mobile Platform Server.

Prerequisites
  • An application project that is ready for production use, or user acceptance and quality assurance testing.
  • Obtain the location to publish the project from the system administrator, and verify that you have read-write access to it..
Task

The production publish process produces a zip file. You can select all associated auxiliary project files to include in the zip file, such Java resource files, application-specific DLL files, JAR files for the back end, and other back-end configuration files.

The publish process checks the overall integrity of the application project. Agentry Editor list errors or warnings in the Problems View. Prepare for the possibility of needing to correct these issues to perform a successful publish. You can publish an application with warnings, but not with errors. Warnings should be corrected prior to deploying to end users.

  1. Create an application definition in Management Cockpit.
  2. In Agentry Editor, click Publish .
  3. Select Production Version, then click Next.
  4. In Production Publish Details, browse to the location provided by your system administrator.
  5. Select the Production Version.
    An Agentry project’s publish version contains three components: major, minor, and modification numbers. For example, in the publish version 3.2 mod 1, the 3 is the major version, 2 is the minor version, and mod 1 is the modification number.
    • New Major Version: the only choice when performing the first production publish for an application. When you select a new major version, the server processes each transaction sent by a client using the old version of the application to avoid incompatibilties with new versions of the same transactions. Once the server process all pending transactions, it provides the updated application to the Agentry Clients.
    • Minor Version: indicates minor updates or bug fixes that do not affect transaction processing.
    • Modification: a modification to a major or minor version that does not affect transaction processing.
  6. (Optional) Right-click in the field under Publish Folder Structure to include auxiliary project files with the application project.
    For the first production publish, this field is blank unless you indicated a default publishing folder structure in the Agentry Editor preferences. Subsequequent publishes display any preselected folders and files. Right-click an object, then select Delete to remove it from the list.

    Agentry Editor Production Publish Folder Structure
    • Add Folder Structure enables you to browse to an existing folder, which includes all sub-folders and their contents.
    • Add Folder enables you to create a new folder. Drag and drop to add files to this folder.
    • Add File enables you to add individual files to the Agentry application zip. Once added, you can drag and drop files to a new or existing folder.
  7. Make the application available to clients immediately, or indicate to deploy the application at a future date and time, then click Next.
    The application definition is published to the specified production location.
  8. Click Finish.
Next
Contact your system administrator to publish the application definition on SAP Mobile Platform Server.
Parent topic: Publishing Applications from the Agentry Editor