Introduction

After you finish designing and implementing your components, you need to consider how applications developers will use them. In many cases, it is helpful to create specific class libraries for your organization or for a specific project. SAS/AF software uses RESOURCE entries to organize and manage classes.

In general, you can follow these steps to make your components available to other developers:

1. Create a RESOURCE entry to group your components together, based on how developers will use them. See Managing Classes with Resources.

2. Move classes from your component development and testing location to the library and catalog that are being used for applications development. Update the SCL source as necessary. See Renaming Class Catalogs and Libraries in a Resource.

3. Instruct applications developers to add the resource that contains your components to the Components Window. See Making a New Class Available for Use.

4. (Optional) Use the experimental GenDoc utility to generate documentation for your components. Copy the documentation files to the appropriate directory, and instruct your component users to update their HELPLOC system option to include a path to this directory. See Generating Class Documentation with GenDoc.

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