Implementing a deployment provider

Deployment providers provide a light weight mechanism for associating a provider with a folder and persisting the mapping state. By implementing a deployment provider there are no explicit workflows implied that you must adhere to. Deployment providers can be associated within a project that is already associated with a repository provider, but the deployment provider doesn't have control over the project's resources. You can image a deployment provider co-existing with the repository to provide say an easy mechanism for deploying part of a project to a test server.

The following sections will explain how to implement a deployment provider.

Extend DeploymentProvider and provide methods to serialization methods

Create a concrete instance of Deployment provider and decide what information must be persisted between sessions.

Add an extension point

Add an extension point

Add an extension point

Site explorer???

Copyright IBM Corporation and others 2000, 2003.