Chapter 17. Deployment
This chapter describes how to distribute your application to the world from a Web site. Doing so is one use of Mozilla's XPInstall (Cross Platform Install) system.
Most Mozilla applications are built to be used. Before one can be used, it must be installed on some computer. Installation is part of the general problem of deployment. Mozilla supports a variety of deployment strategies. This chapter notes all those strategies but focuses on automatic deployment of applications from a URL served up by an ordinary Web server.
Deploying software from a remote server has been a glamorous idea ever since Java ...
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