Deployment

Now that you have learned how to develop OpenLaszlo applications, it’s time to focus on deployment. There are two deployment modes in OpenLaszlo:

• Proxied deployment. In this mode, your application runs on the OpenLaszlo server that in turns runs on a J2EE server or a servlet/JSP container. In this deployment mode, you just need to make sure that your lzx file(s) reside in the right directory. Nothing more.

• Stand-alone OpenLaszlo Output (SOLO) deployment. In this mode, you compile your application to a Flash file or an AJAX application and deploy it and its related resources. No J2EE container or servlet/JSP container is involved as the application file will be called from an HTML file. This mode is often called the server-less deployment.

SOLO applications are easier to deploy and often perform better. This is the better choice for production. Proxied deployment is suitable for development because in this deployment you can compile your code simply by requesting the application from within a Web browser.