Packaging integration solutions

If you package your integration solution, you can control the deployment of the solution into your production environment. You package integration solutions by adding the required resources to a BAR file.

Before you begin

Develop and test the integration solutions that you want to deploy; see Developing integration solutions and Testing and troubleshooting message flows.

About this task

You can deploy individual resources without packaging them manually; see Deploying integration solutions during development.

However, you can deploy all your integration solution resources together if you package them in a single BAR file, and then deploy the BAR file.

You can also include version information in your resources so that you can match the packaged or deployed resources with the resources that you maintain in a source control system; see Version and keyword information for deployable resources.

Procedure

To package resources into a BAR file, complete the following steps:

  1. Create a BAR file; see Creating a BAR file.
  2. Add resources to the BAR file; see Adding resources to a BAR file.

What to do next

  1. Optional: Prepare your packaged solution for deployment by configuring properties with the appropriate values for your production environment. For more information, see Preparing packaged solutions for deployment.
  2. Deploy your BAR file to an integration node, to IBM App Connect on IBM Cloud; see Deploying integration solutions to a production environment.