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Naming conventions for Process Center server deployments

On the IBM Process Center server, you can deploy a snapshot of a process application as well as a snapshot of a toolkit. In addition, you can deploy the tip of a process application or the tip of a toolkit. (A tip is the current working version of your process application or toolkit.) The version context varies, depending on the type of deployment.

For process applications, the process application tip or the specific process application snapshot is used to uniquely identify the version.

Toolkits can be deployed with one or more process applications, but the lifecycle of each toolkit is bound to the lifecycle of the process application. Each process application has its own copy of the dependent toolkit or toolkits deployed to the server. A deployed toolkit is not shared between process applications.

If the track associated with the process application is named something other than the default of Main, the track acronym is also part of the version context.

See the Examples section, later in this topic.


Process application snapshots

For process application snapshot deployments, the version context is a combination of the following items:


Stand-alone toolkits

For toolkit snapshot deployments, the version context is a combination of the following items:


Tips

Process application tips are used during iterative testing in Process Designer. They can be deployed to Process Center servers only.

For process application tip deployments, the version context is a combination of the following items:

Toolkit tips are also used during iterative testing in Process Designer. They are not deployed to a production server.

For toolkit tip deployments, the version context is a combination of the following items:


Examples

Resources should be uniquely named and identified externally using the version context.

Similar naming conventions apply to advanced Toolkit tip and snapshot deployments. They also apply to advanced snapshots installed to Process Server.

Naming conventions