Application Archive
An application archive is a deployment unit for an adapter application that is generated in TIBCO Business Studio. Before deploying an adapter application, you must generate an application archive.
An adapter application is a BusinessWorks application that contains an application module and one or more adapter configurations. Each adapter configuration is an adapter instance configured with the corresponding adapter services.
The generated application archive is an enterprise archive (EAR) file named as application_version.ear. It is the only artifact that is handed from the design phase to the runtime phase, which contains all the bundles and metadata information that are required to deploy the adapter application.
You can create an application archive either by dragging an adapter application from the Project Explorer view to the File Explorer view, or right-clicking the adapter application and clicking Create Enterprise Archive (EAR).
