Packaging guidelines

When writing applications using VA Smalltalk, there are some issues that you need to address in order to package successfully. These issues are outlined in this section, along with recommended guidelines. If you follow these guidelines, you should be able to use the simple packaging process described in Simple packaging. If not, you can either change your code so that it does comply with these guidelines, or see the section Advanced packaging.

The issues to consider when developing applications are

•	Application prerequisites should be specified to include code required to run and startup the packaged application.

•	The use of method dispatch should be minimized.

•	Access classes and globals directly.

•	Avoid accessing information meant for the development environment.

•	Specify how to launch the application.

•	Ensure the application loads cleanly into a shipped image.