Chapter 10. The Virtual Deployment Framework

The traditional type of virtual deployment is based on classes which already exist in a shared class-space or domain. In this case, the end product is a new service installed onto the server from your main client. The traditional way to do this is to upload a descriptor file. The new VDF simplifies this process by passing over the bytes and serializing them into a Deployment instance.

The other type of deployment, which extends the first one, is a plain file-system-based deployment, backed up by Microcontainer VFS. This approach is described in more detail in Chapter 8, The Virtual File System.