+1 for option 02.
On Aug 15, 2015 10:01 AM, "Thilini Cooray" <thili...@wso2.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We need to version a webapp which contains RESTful APIs.
> This webapp will be deployed in WSO2 Api Manager.
>
> Following are 3 approaches I found for the purpose :
>
> 1. Make war name as <warName>${project.artifactId}-${pom.version}</
> warName> which will output webappName-version.war
>
> Its endpoint address is http://HostName:port
> /webappName-version/
> Ex : https://localhost:9443/api-import-export-1.0.0/
>
> 2. Make war name as <warName>${project.artifactId}#${pom.version}
> </warName> which will output webappName#version.war
>
> This will allow Tomcat server to identify versions of the web
> app.
> Its endpoint address is http://HostName:port/
> webappName/version/
> Ex : https://localhost:9443/api-import-export/1.0.0/
> <https://localhost:9443/api-import-export-1.0.0/>
>
> WSO2 Application Server follows this approach [1].
>
> 3. Apache tomcat consists of another approach using "##" for
> context naming [2].
> That approach needs to make war name as <warName>
> ${project.artifactId}##${pom.version}</warName> which will output
> webappName##version.war
>
> Its endpoint address is http://HostName:port/webappName/
> This will use the latest version.
> Ex : https://localhost:9443/api-import-export/
> <https://localhost:9443/api-import-export-1.0.0/>
> However this naming convention cannot be deployed in WSO2 Api
> Manager. It returns AbstractWebappDeployer Unsupported file path format.
>
> What is the best approach to follow when versioning the webapp ?
>
> [1] https://docs.wso2.com/display/AS521/Webapp+Versioning
> [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Naming
>
> Thanks,
> ThiliniC.
>
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>
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> Software Engineer
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