Components
InstallAnywhere 2024 R2
A component is the smallest installable part of a product from the installation developer’s perspective; components are invisible to the end user.
There are many advantages to having fine-grained control over components. Common components may be shared between multiple installers, multiple versions of a product, or multiple products. For example, two products in a suite could have several shared components.
Components are versioned and each has a unique ID, so that a particular version of a component on a system can be searched for to see if the latest version has been installed at a particular location.
Several components make up each feature, and each component can belong to one or more features. Components are made up of files and actions. Although you can assign files and actions to components, you can also assign files and actions directly to features and let InstallAnywhere automatically create the components.
A file or action may belong to one component only. All installers must have at least one component, and can have as many as needed.
The following types of components are available in InstallAnywhere:
| • | Standard Components |
| • | Dependencies |
| • | Shared Components |
Each component type has different install, uninstall, and upgrade behavior.
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