Shaw, Good question. It took me a while to understand the workflow for code management.
Assuming that you are using 1.5.2 or 1.6.0, you would want to edit a file at the source/modules level. Then, you would run mvn package (or mvn clean package). This puts the code in source/target. Then you use ANT. This will move the files to your dspace directory. Then, depending on how you deploy, you may move the file to your webapps directory within tomcat, or you may just deploy tomcat and let it reference the webapps in your dspace directory. I hope that helps. Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President, ALABI [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Shaw Yu [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dspace-tech] A general question about editing a file from a newcomer Hi there, I found that a file (e.g., style.css) can be edited at least at 4 levels (any system is more complicated than this?): 1. at the source/modules level 2. at the source/target level 3. at dspace level 4. at tomcat level Are there general rules about at which level that a file should be edited? It looks like to edit a file at (4) is easiest (no rebuild is needed) but is also easiest to be overwritten late. To edit a file at (1) is just the opposite. Is it true that we should do most of our editing at '2. the source/target level' and than issue an ANT command? Thank you. Shaw VCU Libraries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
