Re: Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Michael Conneen wrote: I looked at the forrestbot for about 1 minute.. then spent another minute using a maven task. It's a hammer thing I guess.. the problem looked like a nail! :) Yeah, the forrestbot does do much more than just deploy the content. You can do stuff like staging the content

Re: Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Conneen
I looked at the forrestbot for about 1 minute.. then spent another minute using a maven task. It's a hammer thing I guess.. the problem looked like a nail! :) Kind Regards, Michael L. Conneen Information Integrators, Inc. http://www.infointegrators.com PGP Key: http://mconneen.infointegrators

Re: Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Michael Conneen wrote: For high-traffic sites, we also cron/schedule a "forrest site" and a maven task to deploy it.The schedule varies depending on the site. Some are done every 15 minutes.. some nightly. You probably want to consider using the forrestbot to do that, it's what we built

Re: Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Ross Gardler
Johannes Schaefer wrote: So, there are some options to run Forrest in live mode: 1. 'forrest run': runs Jetty in a console window (stays open in Windows) 2. 'forrest war': creates a web application to deploy e.g. in tomcat a) use the webapp directory b) use "context descriptors" to use ano

Re: Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael Conneen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We have been doing option 2b for over 1+ years. There have been some anomalies, like pages not reloading... but these were several versions of Forrest ago. For high-traffic sites, we also cron/schedule a "forrest site" and a maven task to deploy i

Summing up: Forrest as a background service (Was: Forrest as Windows-Service: Solution Firedeamon)

2006-03-02 Thread Johannes Schaefer
So, there are some options to run Forrest in live mode: 1. 'forrest run': runs Jetty in a console window (stays open in Windows) 2. 'forrest war': creates a web application to deploy e.g. in tomcat a) use the webapp directory b) use "context descriptors" to use another webapp directory c)