A project represents artifacts that can be built and deployed as unit, deploy can be executed on many instances and many environments. Each project is mapped to exactly one build workflow and one deploy workflow. Each project is also mapped to one build instance, and one or more deploy instances. At workflow execution time (build or deploy), the user selects one or more of the available instances configured on the project, and an environment.
You will be creating create Project for specific artifact(s). For example, SOA Suite composite, OSB Project, Java EE Archive (EAR), JAR File, Application server configuration files, EBS customizations etc. will represent FlexDeploy project. Each such project behaves different due to selection of build and deploy workflows. Build and deploy workflows are reusable which allows you to manage all artifacts of specific type in consistent manner. For example, you can create many 10 Projects for 10 SOA Composites, all of which will use mostly similar configuration except location of code in SCM and some other properties for deployment target.
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