Packaging and Deployment - I
Package and deployment specification describes the software components, their connections, deployment placement, and component customization.
CORBA Component packaging and deployment descriptions are extended from the Open Software Description (OSD) proposal by Marimba and Microsoft.
OSD proposes an XML DTD to describe software packages and their dependencies.
A component package describes one component.
A component assembly package contains a set of component packages, and an assembly descriptor.