Hi Geoff, The general concensus I believe is to use a combination of Ant and source control (CVS, VSS). In our case, we have 4 developers all with Eclipse and local workstation Tomcat instances. We all check in to VSS via the VSS Plugin in Eclipse.
When we wish to perform a staging or production build, we have written an Ant build.xml file to handle deployment. For staging, our Ant script copies JSPs, classes and resources only, nothing fancy. The staging server detects the class changes and reloads the web app and we can test. For production, our Ant script packages everything up as a WAR file which we then deploy by copying into the production webapps folder. You can also use the Tomcat deploy manager tool for this, adn I believe there are also some Tomcat specific Ant commands. But in general, Ant is what you need and some form of source control is a must esp. on multi-dev projects. Allisatir. > -----Original Message----- > From: Geoff Wiggs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 21 March 2005 02:41 > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org > Subject: Tomcat Deploy > > > Quick question on deploying to Tomcat and Eclipse > integration. If it's too > far off topic I apologize in advance. > > The IDS is stellar for deploying to a single server. I > personally have it > deploying to Tomcat running on my workstation. What approach > should I take > for deploying to the production server? Do I need to get > into a CVS of some > sort? Or is there a way to set up an alternate installation to allow > deployment from the IDE to the Production server? > > Geoff > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.orcastech.com > > <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]
