Hey folks- (Shamelessly copied from my blog[1] )... I'm working on an open source tool for managing war files called warconfig (warconfig is/should be to wars as webappconfig is to php apps). We have a need for this at work. I have a pretty detailed write up here [2]. Warconfig is a tool for deploying, upgrading, and rolling back war files on Tomcat (currently only version 5.5 on Gentoo has been tested, though with a little love it should work on Windows and anywhere else that tomcat does. Support for additional app servers should be pretty easy to implement).
The coolest feature, (which is still in the process of being implemented), will allow one to easily see what has changed between war file versions (think CONFIG_PROTECT for files within wars). (Say you have a configuration file containing data specific to your deployment, such as jdbc connection parameters. This will allow you to quickly validate if you've updated your files). (end cut) I realize that as of now there aren't many wars in the ebuild tree. But I suspect that will change soon with the recent pushes by the java herd. I'd like to solicit any feedback from the webapp-confiig, *-config and java people. (Or anyone who has j2ee deployment experience). If people are interested in helping, let me know and I'll create a project with source control and all that good stuff. If the gentoo-java people are interested, I'd like to work with them to get this to be a defacto tool for gentoo (if not that's ok too, I still need this for work). I'm going to be asking for feedback in some non-gentoo places as well, so if you have comments could you be so kind as to post them to my blog[1]? thanks much for your time, -matt [1] - http://panela.blog-city.com/warconfig__feedback_requested.htm [2] - http://developer.spikesource.com/wiki/index.php/Article:Warconfig -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
