Versioning

Once you have developed and deployed a distributed application, and once the application has been in use for some time, it is likely that you will want to make some changes to the application. For example, you may want to add new functionality to a later version of the application, or you may want to change some existing aspect of the application. Of course, ideally, such changes are accomplished without breaking already deployed software, that is, the changes should be backward compatible. Evolving an application in this way is generally known as versioning.

Topics

• Versioning through Incremental Updates
• Versioning with Facets