Re: Quick(er) deployment

Justin:

> Having read the thread below and the binary dist article on the Wiki, I still can't seem to get a faster deployment working. When deploying Cocoon as the client, the keel_bundle_client:basewebappdir task takes upwards of 2 minutes to copy over 5000+ Cocoon files. I can't tell if the changes to the dont.delete.delploy, dont.delete.install, and assemble.webapp.dir properties did anything. Isn't there a way to deploy Keel without having to deploy Cocoon (Struts, etc.)? Any help would be much appreciated.

There's a number of ways to optimize the deploy, depending on what you want to do - the default just uses what is essentially the simplest, but slowest way.

At a high level, here are some of the options:

1. Don't deploy all the way to a webapp every time, but deploy changed files into a directory, then point Tomcat at this directory (or have the directory be in the webapps dir of Tomcat).
2. Deploy Keel's client & server seperately. There are ant targets "assemble-deploy-client" and "assemble-deploy-server" to assist this. You would then need to specify a communications layer between the two (e.g. JMS, Sockets, Axis).

5000+ Cocoon files sounds very high - I'll have to run mine here & see what it's copying, it shouldn't be that bad. I know I'm not taking 2 minutes on a build/deploy cycle!

Also, combinations of the above methods can be done - e.g. even if you're doing a "single-VM" (in other words, a single webapp) deploy of Keel, you can still deploy just the client or just the server portions.

This sounds like a fine topic for a HOWTO, given that there are a lot of different ways to tackle it, and there are no doubt places where the build scripts can be improved to make some of the options easier to use.

Mike

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: user-keelframework.org-admin-rI8AND0JKYOgdSakss0wQjfEH8FBEnyy@public.gmane.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shash Chatterjee
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:59 AM
> To: user-6VIttnCrOeJXNEnpj1eHPNi2O/[email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Keel User] Quick(er) deployment
> 
> Justin,
> 
> > I'm just getting off the ground with Keel, building my first app. Is 
> > there a faster way to deploy an app (single VM, Tomcat, Struts)  
> > without having to stop Tomcat and run the entire assemble-deploy?
> > 
> 
> Look at this thread:
> http://lists.keelframework.com/pipermail/keelgroup-keelframework.com/2004-January/003204.html
>  
> 
> In short, setup Tomcat for context reloading, change Keel properties to not build a WAR, but assemble webapp in a dir, and provide the dir path.  Also, need to set properties to not delete the install/deploy dirs.
> 
> HTH,
> Shash
> 
> PS: The Keel developer archives are not searchable currently, but you can go to http://gmane.org/ and search on the gmane.comp.java.keel.devel and gmane.comp.java.keel.user groups. 
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