We use ant for our deployments. It works very well. FTP is fine. Remember that you can also pull a new revision from a remote location. We use filesets and naming patterns combined with jar to create our images. We have also made our update available internally on a webserver for retrieval as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pugh, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 8:49 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: using ant in the deploy process
How do you copy to multiple servers though? Just run the copy task a bunch
of times? Or can you use a fileset for the todir?
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 7:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: using ant in the deploy process
Or even the humble copy task? That's how I deploy to multiple servers!
:)
-- Don
--- Jason Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would the FTP task not meet your needs?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: using ant in the deploy process
>
>
>
> I've been using Ant to optimize my build and deploy process. So far,
> the
> build process is working great with Ant. However, I've run into some
> trouble with the deploy part. In all the documentation, it's very
> clear
> that Ant is a java-based BUILD tool. However, after the build is
> done, does
> Ant have the tools in order to deploy? Or are there other tools,
> possibly
> from the Jakarta project, that are better equipped to handle deploys?
>
> The specific reason I ask is that I need to deploy to multiple boxes.
> After
> my build is done, I have a cabinet (folder) with all the java classes
> and
> asp for my site. Then for the deploy, I need to deploy this cabinet
> to
> several boxes. Is there a way to deploy to several machines using
> ant?
> Since ant has no for, while, or array constructs, I figured it was
> not
> possible. But then I saw the script task and in there one can use
> the bsf
> supported scripting language of choice. However, I didn't see a lot
> in the
> way of documentation for how to write script tasks. So would
> something like
> this be possible?
>
> deploy.xml
> ----------------
> (snippets).....
>
> <target name="deploy_sites">
> <script language="perl">
> @sites=qw/site1 site2 site3/;
> foreach $site (@sites) {
>
> <antcall target="deploy">
> <param name="site" value="$site"/>
> </antcall>
>
> }
> </script>
> </target>
>
> <target name="deploy">
> <!-- This target would copy,ftp,etc the files to the site
> machine
> -->
> </target>
>
> <target name="main" depends="deploy_sites">
> ....
>
> This is what I would like to do, deploy to multiple boxes. Has
> anyone done
> these types of deploys using ant? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> -Anthony
>
> P.S. - I used Perl in this example because it was the scripting
> language I
> am most familiar with. If this can be done better by another
> scripting
> language (JavaScript, netrexx, etc) then please let me know.
>
>
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