The destination (or transport) for delivering a package is defined in the Where to Publish tab of the SAS Publisher GUI or programmatically in a SAS application using PACKAGE_PUBLISH CALL routines.
Transports are the following:
- Archive
- a single binary collection of all the items in a package. An archived package is also referred to as an SPK file, which is short for SAS Package.
- Channel
- a conduit through which the defined transport (either e-mail or message queue) delivers package items to the subscriber of the channel. The subscriber defines the preferred transport using personal subscription properties.
- E-mail
- mechanism for delivering selected package items to identified recipients.
- Message Queue
- in application messaging, a place where the publisher can send a message (or a package) that can be retrieved by another program for continued processing.
- WebDAV-Compliant Server
- an acronym for Web Distributed
Authoring and Versioning. Whereas the traditional transports (archive, channel, e-mail,
and message queue) are repositories for published package data that can be
retrieved and reprocessed in a synchronous fashion, a
WebDAV-compliant server facilitates concurrent access to and update of
package data on the Internet.
