On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Sameera Medagammaddegedara < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Everyone, > > *Problem* > > - As it stands ,if a Jaggery application needs to be updated the user > must manually copy the required files > - This introduces a number of problems > - If several files need to be changed it will become a chore > - A user may forget to copy one or more files > - It departs from the normal way in which patches are applied to > other WSO2 products > - The files that could be included in a patch to a Jaggery file could > include (but is not limited ) to the following; > 1. JAG files > 2. JS files > 3. Jaggery Modules ( These will be JS files) > 4. Images and CSS files > 5. JSON files > > *Suggestion* > > - Package the files to be replaced in a zip format > - All Jaggery App patches could be placed in the > repository/components/patches/jaggeryapps similar to the way existing > patches are applied > - *Structure of the patch* > - Please refer to attached image > - The files to be updated would need to be organized according to > structure of the app or module to be patched > - Before the application is deployed the archive is extracted and > the files copied over to the mirrored location in the app or module to be > patched > > *Open Questions* > > - How do we handle reverting a patch? > - How can we apply the patch before Jaggery app is deployed? > > I have a very basic question to ask, Jaggery apps also deploy on Tomcat runtime as web apps and only different is the way we develop those apps we use Jaggery (JS) instead of Java other than that within the runtime Jaggery apps are identical to any other Tomcat apps hence why we need to provide special patching model for Jaggery apps ? Usually we don't patch web apps instead we upgrade their versions or redeploy updated .war file why we cant live with this simple approach ? Thanks ! > Thank You, > > Sameera > > > -- > Sameera Medagammaddegedara > Software Engineer > > Contact: > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: + 94 077 255 3005 > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- Sagara Gunathunga Senior Technical Lead; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com V.P Apache Web Services; http://ws.apache.org/ Linkedin; http://www.linkedin.com/in/ssagara Blog ; http://ssagara.blogspot.com
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