Plug-ins

Plug-ins provide basic processing functions as well as integration with third-party tools. Deployment Automation ships with plug-ins for many common deployment processes, and others are readily available for a wide variety of tools, such as middleware tools, databases, servers, and other deployment targets.

Plug-ins break down a tool's functions into simple, discrete steps such as detecting if a server is stopped, stopping a server, and starting a server. When you use plug-ins to create a component process, you typically use steps from several plug-ins. For example, you might create a process using a plug-in for a source control tool that deploys a component to a middleware server, and another plug-in to configure a step that removes the component from the server.

For a reference of plug-ins and examples of component processes using plug-ins, see the Serena Deployment Automation Plug-ins Guide.