.. _application_templates:

Application Templates
=====================

An Application template is a code structure for an Ellip Workflows application. It comes as a fully fledged application instance, based on a pre-defined template and ready to be executed as-is, but meant to be adapted accordingly to some specific data processing needs. Such instance offers a powerful mean to automatically handle the application packaging process (see :ref:`packaging`), the application package sharing, and its Cloud deployment on Production servers.
Currently, there are two types of templates:

- Ellip release 1.0 templates (based on `Cookiecutter <https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_ project tools)
- Ellip beta release archetypes (based on `Maven <https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-archetypes.html>`_ tools), to be deprecated

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

  cookiecutters/index
  archetypes/index