Hi Tony,
On 01/27/2012 04:38 PM, Carlucci, Tony wrote:
Hello,
We have been trying to determine the best way to build and deploy Rave based projects
internally (in reality Maven 3 projects). Our current software migration process
requires us to build a "generic" artifact of any application (without any
environment specific properties) that can be deployed to any of our environments (dev,
qa, prod, etc). The deploy process essentially retrieves the generic artifact and
applies the environment specific settings (like urls to external resources, email
addresses, LDAP urls, etc), and copies the environment-specific WAR to the appropriate
server.
The majority of our applications are Ant based and we have a neat home-grown
Task that performs string token substitutions of our files which contain
placeholders for the environment specific values. This lets us customize any
file in our application (.properties, application-context.xml, web.xml, etc)
during the deploy process.
Our question is: how do we best do this for Maven 3 based projects? We need to build
the "generic" artifact (which gets stored in our Software Repository
application) and then apply the environment specific properties at deploy time. I know
Maven supports profiles but these seem to be needed during the build/packaging phase, and
would undoubtedly place an environment specific artifact in both the Maven repository and
our internal artifact repository tool. Is it better to externalize all environment
specific properties outside of the WAR?
we (at Hippo) mostly use this approach: storing stuff outside of the WAR
(albeit for different product). What we try to avoid is to many
differences within appication-contex, web.xml etc. files and use
properties as much as possible, actually, in most cases those files are
identical for all environments.
A lot of the security issues is also solved by applying this (e.g. no
user names nor passwords are stored on developers machines /svn/git etc).
I think Rave can pretty much be used this way.
cheers
marijan
This seems like a problem that has already been solved and we are hoping the
Rave community would have some experience in this area.
Thanks, Tony
