About Application Packaging

It is the process of capturing the changes made by an Installation Program (Package) and it is designed to support company standards and distribution methods.

Application packaging has many benefits for application developers and users. Traditional or legacy software installations in the past were developed in a variety of ways. Setup developers designed their install programs to concentrate on their own products which often impacted on programs that were already installed on the PC. Application Packaging is a process which customizes software as per user’s or client’s requirement. The word customize includes adding a new feature to it or deleting any unwanted feature from it. In this wrapping, the software installation, reinstallation and removal are customized according to user’s needs. The process of packaging is more like a client oriented technology. 

Application Packaging is the process of creating distributable bundles of application files, registry keys, INI files and all other entities that are needed for an application to function correctly in a Windows operating system environment. These bundles are called application packages. Package is a file that contains an application files and metadata required to create and manage instances of the application.