Putting Classes in Deployed Mode
You might want to put some of your classes in deployed mode before you send them to customers; this process hides the source code.
For any class definitions that contain method definitions that you do not want customers to see, compile the classes and then use $SYSTEM.OBJ.MakeClassDeployed(). For example:
do $system.OBJ.MakeClassDeployed("MyApp.MyClass")
For an alternative approach, see Adding Compiled Code to Customer Databases.
About Deployed Mode
When a class is in deployed mode, its method and trigger definitions have been removed. (Note that if the class is a data type class, its method definitions are retained because they may be needed at runtime by cached queries.)
You cannot export or compile a class that is in deployed mode, but you can compile its subclasses (if they are not in deployed mode).
There is no way to reverse or undo deployment of a class. You can, however, replace the class by importing the definition from a file, if you previously saved it to disk. (This is useful if you accidentally put one of your classes into deployed mode prematurely.)
