Patent ID: 7150015

Claim:
A method for deploying an asset into a base environment of a target node, the target node being connected to a multi-tiered network through a network connection, comprising the steps of: organizing a package according to a package boundary, the package including: at least two assets, each asset being a component of an application and having an asset type defined by an asset boundary and at least two asset layers including a logic/data layer and an extended environment layer; and a base environment associated with said at least two assets; wherein the package boundary may be determined by the asset boundary of at least one asset in the package; determining if at least one asset type is at least one of a session bean type and an entity bean type; translating the asset(s) to deploy on a target node with a different base environment than the base environment associated with the asset(s); distributing the package over the multi-tiered network to the target node; and inserting at least one enterprise Java bean implementation class associated with the translated asset(s) into a target archive in the base environment of the target node.