Creating and Editing a Deployment Profile

Deployment profiles are project components that govern the packaging and deployment of a project or application. A deployment profile specifies the format and contents of archive file that will be created.

To create a deployment profile:

In the Applications Navigator, select the project for which you want to create a profile.
Choose File | New to open the New Gallery.
In the Categories tree, expand General and select Deployment Profiles. In the Items list, select a profile type.

If the desired item is not found or enabled, make sure the correct project is selected, and choose All Technologies in the Filter By dropdown list.
Click OK.
In the Create Deployment Profile dialog provide the name and location for the profile, and click OK.

The profile (a .deploy file) will be added to the project, and its Deployment Profile Properties dialog will open.
Select items in the the left pane open dialog pages in the right pane. Configure the profile by setting property values in the pages of the dialog.

For instructions for any page, click Help .

Click OK when you are done.

To reopen the profile later to make changes, select it in the the Navigator, right click, and choose Properties , or double click on the profile in the Navigator.