> I was thinking about methods to improve my so called "development > enviroment", and I am curious to learn how others do when they work. > > Until now I use a handcrafted "build.xml" which by using ant builds the > jars, classes, creates WEB-INF and all that stuff. Later I use the normal > catalina-scripts to launch and shutdown tomcat4. > While it works, it is a slow and ineffective process I guess.
That sounds pretty typical. If you're using ant to build your product, you do have to give it instructions :) The degree of which your source layout reflects the code structure of your application can make a difference in how easy/difficult it is to build. If your application has subcomponents, the source layout should reflect that sort of division. If you'd like to see more concrete examples, you can always get a copy of Tomcat's source code, and see how it's put together. For the related question: > How do you setup a server so that if you had 3 developers...each one > has their own instance of tomcat running at the same time....?? This depends on your development environment. If all of your developers have tomcat running on the same host, you have a few options: - if you've got an apache front end, give each developer their own virtual host, and their own tomcat port. - if everyone runs tomcat standalone, give each their own set of ports. - (Standalone again) give each developer their own IP address for their tomcat instance. (Caveat: I've never set it up this way, but it looks like you can accomplish this by having each developer give the DN for their individual IP in the Host element of server.xml. Comments from anyone who's set it up this way?) In general, you can break network traffic up two way: IP addresses and ports. That's what you have to work with. -- Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
