tailieunhanh - Creating Applications with Mozilla-Chapter 6. Packaging and Installing Applications-P1

Tham khảo tài liệu 'creating applications with mozilla-chapter 6. packaging and installing applications-p1', công nghệ thông tin, kỹ thuật lập trình phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 6. Packaging and Installing Applications-Pl The previous chapters covered the basic parts of building an application. Now that you ve seen how to create an application with XUL CSS and JavaScript that can be used on your local computer we will show you how to turn your program into something that can be installed by other users. This chapter discusses the technologies Mozilla provides for packaging and installing applications. Until your project is packaged for distribution it can t be fully considered a finished application unless it was designed to work only on the computer where it was created . Making your application distributable installable and registrable allows others to use what you have created. This chapter is divided into four main sections. It starts with a quick overview of the basics of packaging and installing applications. The second section provides details about how to get your application packaged and described so that Mozilla recognizes what it is. The next section specifies how to put your package into a cross-platform installation file that can be installed over the Web onto other machines. The last section provides tips for customizing how your application will look once it is installed. . Packaging and Installing Overview Several different pieces comprise Mozilla s distribution technology. In fact Mozilla may have a few more moving parts than other packaging systems because it needs a way to package and install new software uniformly across several different platforms. Figure 6-1 shows the major components of Mozilla s packaging system outlined in black. Figure 6-1. Mozilla packaging components As you can see in Figure 6-1 the Cross-Platform Installer XPI pronounced zippy or X-P-I is the archive format used to distribute Mozilla applications. The XPI file contains a script that downloads and installs the application. The package inside the XPI has a manifest that is used to register the new Mozilla-based software with the .