Hi All, I am currently trying to streamline our team's build process here using Tomcat as our servlet container.
For a while the way I had it setup was that we had 1 instance of TC running on a dev server and 1 instance on production. Each developer would checkout only the code they will work on from VSS. They would not have read-only latest version copies of the other source on their disks. They would then use an Ant build script to compile their checked out classes directly to TC's classes, and a separate Ant target for copying JSPs and so on to the webapp folder. This method as far as I was concerned got around the code overwrite problem - where if both developers had a version of all source using a Get Latest Version, each time they compile they would overwrite the same instance compiled classes. Recently, I have installed a TC per developer on the server. My idea is that we will use the Eclipse VSS plugin and WILL all perform Get Latest Version. However, because each dev has their own dev instance, they will not overwrite any changes by other developers on source they have not got checked out. Then, I am thinking, each developer must only ever checkin stable compilable source, so that when other devs Get Latest Version from the root of the source tree, it will still compile. When I do a build, I am thinking that all source must be checked in, then a Get Latest Version, then run an Ant script to compile and generate a WAR for staging and production deployment. Finally, I have just this second had a call from IT saying the 3 instances on our dev server are brining virtual memory to its knees - which begs another question - should each developer have a locally installed TC rather than server based? I would be very interested in others' development/deploy processes with mult-developer Tomcat environments to cross-check my ideas. Kindest Regards, Allistair. <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Developers of QuickAddress Software <a href="http://www.qas.com";>www.qas.com</a> Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
