Hello Sushil, IMHO: ANT 1.7 has much improved deployment features in the area 
of remote distributed deployments.

Sureka, Sushil wrote ..
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>       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

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