Application packaging software

[Dodo_5]

I want to package my application(application is developed using IBM websphere application server,process server,message broker).
Is it possible using PERL to package the developed application?
Or any tool or software (open source)which can do the same work(IBM build forge tool does the same...so any alternative of that tool in open source?)

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The most widely useful tool for packaging is tar.

That makes your application not be OS dependent.

Surely if you intend it only for HP-UX its useful to build it as a .depot file, but if your stuff will run on other OS's tar it up with the full path, that will do the trick.

Possible to use perl? Yes. But you probably will need to write your own custom installer.

SEP

[Dodo_5]

Thanks a lot for help.
Can you just provide some generic code or script for packaging,so that I can modify it for my application?

[Ivan Krastev]

Hi Dodo,

use Archive::Tar module for perl - http://perldoc.perl.org/Archive/Tar.html

regards,
ivan