On Mar 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bradford, Jeff L wrote:
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.
There's going to be a fairly big plan change between 1.0 and 1.1, and
I'm working on a utility for upgrading plans. I'm hoping that this
scheme will be extensible for the future. We're certainly aware of
the problem. As far as the server itself, we are working towards a
plugin based server architecture, which as a side effect should make
it easy to have the server upgrade itself (on request :-)
If you have more ideas for what would be useful, please let us know!
thanks
david jencks
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
