Deployment is the process of moving EDA assets from the design environment into the run-time or production environment.

EDA event types composites can be deployed to one or more target runtimes using the webMethods Deployer’s repository-based deployment. To use this deployment method, you must have the Asset Build Environment (ABE) installed.

The EDA event types composites that you create prior to deployment must have a specific structure in order to be deployable using Deployer. Event Types deployment composites are valid Event Types projects - a parent project directory with an Event Types subdirectory containing event type definitions. Software AG recommends that you use Software AG Designer’s Events Development perspective to develop your custom event type definitions.

The event type definitions are considered individual assets and are packed by the Asset Build Environment into zip archives. Multiple event type definitions can be packed in a single zip file.

When you enable the creation of EDA composites and run the ABE build script, the script searches the specified source directories and creates a composite for each project directory that contains EDA event types.

For more information about installing the Asset Build Environment feature, see Installing Software AG Products. For more information about building composites for repository-based deployment, see webMethods Deployer User’s Guide.