1. Power Hour July 2010 Deployment Clients
Ben Allums

2. Power Hour – July 2010 Agenda Survey Results Deployment Clients
Webinars of Interest

3. Power Hour – July 2010
Survey Results

4. Survey Results
When to meet:

5. Survey Results
Topics to cover:

6. Survey Results Topics to cover:
Mapping Styles from FrameMaker 8 to ePublisher

7. Power Hour – July 2010
Deployment Clients

8. Deployment Clients What are deployment clients?
Why deployment clients?
How do they work?
How can I make my own?

9. Deployment Clients What are deployment clients? Standalone executables
Conform to the ePublisher deployment client CLI interface
Enable integration of any custom deployment methodology

10. Deployment Clients Why deployment clients?
Created to support Wiki deployment in ePublisher
Wiki deployment needs too varied across delivery platforms (MoinMoin, MediaWiki, Confluence)
External process enables the use of different Windows technologies to implement the right solution
Security enabled by the client itself
ePublisher tracks deployment configurations on behalf of deployment clients

11. Let’s try it! Deployment Clients How do they work?
Standalone executables
Invoked with either
configure <input configuration path> <output configuration path>
deploy <configuration path> <deploy file type> <files info>
ePublisher expects to track a configuration as a single string
Wiki deployment clients encode complex configurations with Base64 encoding to represent the configuration as a single string
Tied into the format via format.wwfmt hints
Let’s try it!

12. Deployment Clients How can I make my own? Create your executable
Implement configure option
Implement deploy option
Copy it into your project area
Formats\Helpers
Create a new stage (if necessary) to generate a deployment info file
Override format.wwfmt
Define your custom deployment capability
Add your deployment info file generation stage

13. Power Hour – July 2010
Webinars of Interest

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17. Power Hour July 2010 Deployment Clients
Ben Allums