An ABL application contains the same basic components in both the classic AppServer and PAS for OpenEdge, but it should be packaged and distributed in a way that best suits the architecture of PAS for OpenEdge. Therefore, existing scripts, build tools, and so forth, that package a classic AppServer's ABL application do not work with PAS for OpenEdge. You can continue packaging and distributing your ABL application as if it were for a classic AppServer, but you will lose some of PAS for OpenEdge's value.

Note: If you must, you can deploy the ABL application's .p and .r files anywhere on the OS's file system, just like in a classic AppServer. However, you lose most, if not all, of the benefits of the PAS for OpenEdge infrastructure for deployment, updates, and security.