Autonomic Computing

The Solution Enabler

The Solution Enabler is a framework for creating and deploying solutions locally or to remote machines with different operating systems. The framework helps to simplify the creation and deployment of software solutions by capturing detailed knowledge of a solution package deployed through a common installer.

A prime objective of the Solution Enabler is to effectively encode information about configuration and customization into a solution package, thus minimizing the need for detailed knowledge of the solution components during deployment. Now more than ever, the Solution Enabler's Eclipse-based plug-in, the Solution Developer, facilitates the encoding of this information. In addition, non-Eclipse command line utilities are ...