Chapter 10. The Virtual Deployment Framework
The new Virtual Deployment Framework (VDF) is an improved way to manage deployers in the Microcontainer. This chapter details some of its useful features.
10.1. Agnostic Handling of Deployment Types
The traditional type of virtual deployment is based on classes which already exist in a shared class-space or domain. In this case, the end product is a new service installed onto the server from your main client. The traditional way to do this is to upload a descriptor file. The new VDF simplifies this process by passing over the bytes and serializing them into a
Deployment instance.
The other type of deployment, which extends the first one, is a plain file-system-based deployment, backed up by Microcontainer VFS. This approach is described in more detail in Chapter 8, The Virtual File System.
