On Sep 11, 2008, at 4:46 AM, Marco Laponder wrote:
Hi All,
I am wondering if the current setup for my development environment is
optimal. I have a maven project with all the relevant resource for mu
EAR containing a WAR.
When I want to test my changes, I package a new war and ear, and use
the
deployer to deploy my new ear with Geronimo. Are the better solutions
than this configuration ? Can I configure Geronimo to use a directory
structure which contains my unzipped ear and war e.g. ?
Since you are using maven I strongly suggest you set up a workflow as
sort of documented here:
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDOC21/constructing-a-special-purpose-server-using-maven.html
Basically, add some stuff to your maven build tthat:
1. builds geronimo plugins for each of your applications
2. assembles a geronimo server including your apps.
you can then run automated integration tests on your app using e.g.
selenium.
Another option is to deploy your apps using the geronimo-maven-plugin
to an already running server as is done in the testsuite. I don't
like this quite as much since there is a greater chance of
contamination from a previous version of you app that might not have
gotten completely uninstalled: however if you are not installing
anything to var its unlikely you would run into this kind of problem.
thanks
david jencks
Kind regards,
Marco Laponder
