Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Interesting question. If we ship with dev mode on, many people will
deploy in dev mode. On the other hand, if we ship in production mode,
many people won't see the features of dev mode.
A solution is to ship in dev mode, but ensure that people know they're
in dev mode. With a big splash, either in the console, in a transient
Swing window (appear for 5 seconds and disappear) or why not as the
first page displayed in the browser.
The Ruby on Rails solution is to use an environment variable that
defaulted to "Development". In production the environment variable
would be set on the server to "Production". For the unit tests, the
generators automatically run in "Test" mode. Now, I know that Java 5
has the re-introduction of environment variables, and we still need Java
1.4 support--so some sort of equivalent would be decent.
The solution works amazingly well.
