Plaant Life Cycle

Deployment : Getting Plaant application up and running

Plaant offers the tools, that substantially simplify the application deployment, and make the task manageable by a skilled consultant. The main instrument for the deployer is PlaantTools.

• Accessing the data store (SQL server)

  The only thing to know for deployer to access the data store is the login information for the database server, to which Plaant is connected
  

• Initialization of the Plaant system tables

  As the first step of deployment process, Plaant data structures are created. The procedure is fully automated and only needs a deployer's confirmation of the action in PlaantTools.
  

• Deployment execution

  At every upgrade of Plaant application, two easy steps have to be made:
  
  • Incremental upgrade of data structures
  • Deployment of Plaant-XML and class files describing the application

Both actions are fully automated: the deployer's task is to invoke and confirm them. If any problem (e.g. broken connection to the database, wrong username or password), the deployer is promptly informed. Where necessary, the deployer can immediately repeat the step, or analyze it and detect the point where the problem arose.