Hello Sushil, IMHO: ANT 1.7 has much improved deployment features in the area of remote distributed deployments.
Sureka, Sushil wrote .. > > > > Hi, > > We are intending to deploy our application on individual laptops > (to be used by field personnel who does not have internet connectivity > to connect to our central server). The idea is that a trimmed down > version of our core application will be deployed on individual laptops > running tomcat against a light weight Sybase database. > > I wanted to see if you had any suggestions about - > 1. How best to deploy the initial version (5.5) of Tomcat on > individual machines - We understand our options are Microsoft SMS, Java > Web Start application, shell script or Ant script to install Tomcat on > these laptop boxes. We are leaning towards Microsoft SMS since > (a) It can easily mass deploy the app to hundreds of machine > (b) It is currently used in our organization to deploy some asp > application. > If you believe there are downsides to this approach or other > approaches are better please let me know > > 2. How best to deploy the upgraded version (6.x or higher) - We > potentially could use the same approach as the first one, but wanted to > see if the opinion differs. > > 3. And finally the rollout of initial app and upgraded app > version. Again probably use the same approach as before but wanted to > throw this out there in case there are better ideas. > > Please let me know your thoughts on this. > > Sushil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]