APPARATUS FOR JOURNALING DURING SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT AND METHOD THEREFOR

A method and apparatus for automatically generating a log, or journal, during the deployment of software packages to client systems on a network are implemented. The logs may be used to verify the deployment and facilitate selectively deployment of components not successfully deployed. The mechanism rests on an object-oriented architecture that provides a multiplicity of actions that effects software management operations on the target system. The actions are implemented as methods within the object oriented architecture. In this way, each software element, for example, registry entries, files, directories, etc., which may be implicated in a software deployment are treated on an equal footing. The mechanism automatically generates a log file based on the actions contained within the particular deployment package.