There is also a video of the presentation too at

http://www.screencast.com/users/JonathanMarkow/folders/Jasig%202010%20Conference/media/c9b343d0-9d13-4f8b-bfb9-d5be2dba15e8





On 12/1/10 7:31 AM, "Carroll, Timothy Dale" <tcarr...@illinois.edu> wrote:

My colleague Andy (Gherna) and I did a uPortal environment management clinic at 
the Spring Conference (in San Diego).  I'll track down the slides and send you 
a link.  Basically, we made some small modifications to the maven project 
layout to allow for multiple configuration .jars, then managed which one was 
applied to a given environment .war using Maven overlays.  The presentation was 
very step-by-step.

Regards, Tim



On Nov 30, 2010, at 8:27 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

Hi all,

I am wondering how people manage multiple build environments using the one 
source tree of uPortal. What I mean is that we have several developers as well 
as dev, test, uat and prod environments all with different details for the 
hostname, tomcat path and database connection details. And we want to run this 
all out of one source tree.

What we've come up with so far is to use a local properties file which each 
environment has, and is kept out of SVN, which contains a number of properties 
specific to that environment, like the server.home url, CAS call back URLs and 
db connection details.

I've added this to Ant to it get picked up before the build.properties file (so 
it loads the server.home var), and adjusted parts of the the uportal-war and 
uportal-impl to use these property placeholders instead of being hardcoded, 
then added the filter to the poms for each project, and *almost* everything is 
working.

I've found some bundled portlets perform filtering of their own from other 
properties files in the uportal-impl (ie Bookmarks portlet grabs values for its 
own datasource.properties file from uportal-impl rdbms.properties) and I'm 
wondering if it would make more sense to have a global properties file that can 
be customised for this exact purpose. Eg see below.

Happy to submit a patch, but it would mean that how you configure uPortal would 
be different, but IMO easier - ie the most common properties that you can 
customise are in one file rather than multiples, and would make source control 
that much easier when dealing with multiple environments - edit one file at the 
root level, not multiples all over the place.

Thoughts?

regards,
Steve



Current bookmarks portlet pulls its config from uportal-impl:
<configuration>
<filters>
<filter>${basedir}/../../uportal-impl/src/main/resources/properties/rdbm.properties</filter>
</filters>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>


Proposed change:
<configuration>
<filters>
<filter>${basedir}/../../local.properties</filter>
</filters>
<webResources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<targetPath>WEB-INF/classes</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</webResources>
</configuration>

Likewise, the CAS settings in uportal-war would be:

<filter>
        <filter-name>CAS Validate Filter</filter-name>
        
<filter-class>org.jasig.cas.client.validation.Cas20ProxyReceivingTicketValidationFilter</filter-class>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>casServerUrlPrefix</param-name>
          <param-value>${cas.host}</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
          <param-name>serverName</param-name>
          <param-value>${uportal.host}</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>proxyCallbackUrl</param-name>
            <param-value>${uportal.callback}</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>proxyReceptorUrl</param-name>
            <param-value>/CasProxyServlet</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>

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