Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Develop and deploying applications > Deploy and administering business-level applications > Business-level applications
Assets
An asset represents one or more application binary files that are stored in an asset repository. Typical assets include application business logic such as Java EE archives, library files, and other resource files.
An asset repository stores the binary files for the asset. The product configuration repository provides a default asset repository.
Assets in the configuration repository are managed by the product management domain. The configuration repository stores asset binary files in WAS_HOME/config/cells/cell_name/assets/asset_name/aver/BASE/bin/.
An asset name must be unique within a cell, the product administrative domain.
The product creates an asset.xml file when an asset is registered with the product configuration. The file contains information about the asset such as its name, destination location, and dependencies on other assets.
We must register files as assets before you can add them to one or more business-level applications. At the time of asset registration, you can import the physical application files into the product configuration repository or you can specify an external location where the asset resides.
Business-level applications
Deploy and administering business-level applications
Import assets