If you really want to make it easy for the truly gifted (who can understand the
complex world of DHTML and cross-browser support, but not the command-line?) you
could automate the Ant build process to kick off on file checkin. I am assuming
they know how to use version control here. If not, perhaps you should spend a
little time on TRAINING. :-)
There is a movement afoot that speaks about the benefits of continuous
integration. Ant plays a key role in most of these "frameworks". Check out
http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: J2EE development/deployment cycle
Ummm...
That's fine for us techies, but what about those page designers who can just
about use Dreamweaver/photoshop and that's it.
Must we expect them to know how run ant? (I know it's just a one-liner on the
command line - but some people don't even know what a command line is!).
They're used to hitting save on their editor and then hitting refresh on their
browser - ie a sub-second turn-around.
I'm still worried - there's gotta be a better way.
(Now, if I had my way we'd have nice google style pages.... but that's another
story... ;-) )
Jeff Schnitzer wrote:
> Ant is my best friend :-)
>
> Seriously. "ant deploy" compiles, packages, and hot-deploys my entire
> application to my development server (Orion, in my case). I don't even
> leave NetBeans to do it; the 3.1beta has an Ant integration module.
> There is very little time or effort involved.
>
> Jeff Schnitzer
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Tim Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 4:08 AM
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: J2EE development/deployment cycle
> >
> >
> >I'm interested in knowing people's strategies for deployment when
> >developing a J2EE application.
> >It seems impracticle (and time consuming) to me to have to
> >repackage all
> >
> >the .war and .ear files and redeploy to the server everytime
> >they make a
> >
> >minor change to an .htm, .jsp or .gif file during the
> >development cycle.
> >
> >I'd be interested to know how teams are approaching this issue.
> >
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