OpenEdge Development:<br />Progress Dynamics Administration Deployment menu

Figure 1–3 shows the Deployment menu, which provides the tools for deploying Progress Dynamics applications from one Progress Dynamics site to another.

Deployment Dataset Control — Defines the contents of datasets that you can use to deploy related tables from the Progress Dynamics Repository or application databases. The Site Control on the System menu is also essential to this process (see the "System menu" section).

Release Version Control — Allows you to specify release milestones that you can use to specify objects for deployment that have changed since a prior release milestone.

Dataset Export — Filters the records to include in a deployment dataset and exports the dataset in a format ready for import at another Progress Dynamics site.

Dataset Import — Imports a deployment dataset generated with the Dataset Export tool at another Progress Dynamics site.

Reset Data Modified Status — Resets the Data Modified Status of all the data in the Repository so that the data is listed as Not Modified.

Deployment Destinations — Specifies deployment destinations for one or more static objects.

Deploy Static Objects — Creates deployment packages containing precompiled static objects for an individual deployment destination.

Redundant ADO Listings — Generates a list of the ADO files that no longer exist in the Repository. You can then use this list to remove the redundant ADOs from the Repository.

Generate Client Cache — Creates a cache of application objects and entities used by the client. Caching can improve performance by reducing the number of calls to the Repository.

4GL Generator — Generates static 4GL equivalents of dynamic objects that are optimized for performance. You can then deploy these static 4GL equivalents as the run-time versions of the dynamic objects that you otherwise deploy and maintain in the design-time Repository.

For more information on the Generate Client Cache tool, see the information on the class and entity cache in Chapter E, " Performance Notes." For more information on the 4GL Generator tool, see the sections on generating 4GL equivalents of dynamic objects in Chapter D, " Deployment Notes."

For more information on these Progress Dynamics deployment tools and release versioning, see the product release notes and related white papers posted on the Progress Software Developers Network® (PSDN) Web site: