My reference to "the Eclipse > Software Update option" below was just an example reference to a nice easy pull solution to version upgrades.
I was wondering if Geronimo had any plans of offering some type of migration solution (i.e. executable, script, etc.) to expedite version migrations for the users. Our current vendor app server offers this and another open source app server here does not, and it is becoming more an more of a productivity killer issue. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Matt Hogstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Release Management Jeff, We are constantly kicking around ideas of how to improve the user experience. It sounds like your primary concern is updates and synchronization when running in Eclipse or another IDE. Is this correct? Do you have requirements for runtime updates as well? Bradford, Jeff L wrote: > One of the issues we have run into with previous open source app servers > is the lack of a fast migration path from one version to the next. It > is always an unzip and then a manual movement of the needed app specific > info and server config while keeping in mind changes to DTDs as well. > Keeping a large development shop on the same version of an app server > locally and on our various testing tiers is a major undertaking. > Therefore, do you have any plans or would you consider assembling some > type of auto-update executable, script or an Eclipse type of Software > Updates option to ease this pain between major and minor versions. > > Thanks, > Jeff >
