File Purpose Attribute

[Randy George <randyg@us.ibm.com>]

In the current specification, there
is a purpose attribute that can be declared for each file in the SDD package.
 However, we have not defined "standard values" for this
attribute.  At a minimum, with the separation of the package from
the deployment descriptor, a file element needs to point to the deployment
descriptor.   Thus, it would be wise to have a standard value for
this file purpose attribute, e.g. deploymentDescriptor.  This provides
a standard approach for obtaining the deployment descriptor xml document
from the package. 

In addition, I think that we should
define some other common files, e.g. EULA, ReadMe and ResposeFile.

Thoughts/Comments?

Regards,
Randy George

Senior Technical Staff Member
Provisioning Architecture
Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group
Austin, TX  
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