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Chapter 15: Deploying Flex Applications
When you deploy an Adobe® Flex® application, you make the application accessible to your users. The process of
deploying an application is dependent on your application, your application requirements, and your deployment
environment. For example, the process of deploying an application on an internal website that is only accessible
by company employees might be different from the process for deploying the same application on a public website
accessible by anyone.
Use the overview of the deployment process and the general checklist as a guide when you deploy your appli-
cation.
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About deploying an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Deployment options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300
Compiling for deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302
Deployment checklist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
About deploying an application
When you deploy an application, you move the application from your development environment to your
deployment environment. After you deploy it, customers have full access to the application.
The deployment process that your organization uses might only require you to copy a Flex application’s SWF file
from your development server to your deployment server. In many organizations however, the deployment
process is more complicated, and involves people from groups outside the development organization. For
example, you might have an IT department that maintains your corporate website. The IT department might be
responsible for staging, testing, and then deploying your application.
Your application architecture might also require you to deploy more than just a single SWF file. For example, your
application might access Runtime Shared Libraries (RSLs) or other assets at run time. You must make sure to copy
all required files to your deployment environment.
Deployment might also require you to perform operations other than just copying application files to a
deployment server. Your application might access data services on your server, or on another server. You must
ensure that your data services are accessible by a deployed Flex application that executes on a client’s computer.