topic AMP Development Environment in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/amp-development-environment/m-p/94303#M64588 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am developing an AMP in Eclips deploying to tomcat.&nbsp; deployment/testing has proven to be quite the process.&nbsp; I am looking for a better way to setup my environment.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Right now, I make code changes and run an ant script.&nbsp; The ant script does the following:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. shutsdown my tomcat server</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. builds my java code</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3. integrates everything into the WAR (using your AMP deploy tool)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>4. deletes the alfresco directory in webapps</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>5. copies the war over to the webapps directory (overwriting the old)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>6. copies the "shared extension" files over</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>7. restarts tomcat</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This process takes several minutes to complete…. Needless to say, it doesn't help my productivity and I have to work kinda old school of making as many changes as possible and then deploy and test each one, working many threads of issues at a time….&nbsp; :shock: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It would be AWESOME if it could be integrated into Eclipse.&nbsp; The problems I ran into (trying to let eclipse do integrated deploys) is…well…it didn't work <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The reason I delete the webapps/alfresco directory is that the AMP integration puts a later version of the jar in the war (with the new code).&nbsp; When tomcat starts, it does not deploy the "new" jar into the webapps/alfresco deploment directory.&nbsp; It doesn't recognise it changed.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks for you help…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:35:39 GMT nyronian 2007-07-13T22:35:39Z AMP Development Environment https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/amp-development-environment/m-p/94303#M64588 I am developing an AMP in Eclips deploying to tomcat.&nbsp; deployment/testing has proven to be quite the process.&nbsp; I am looking for a better way to setup my environment.Right now, I make code changes and run an ant script.&nbsp; The ant script does the following:1. shutsdown my tomcat server2. builds my java Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:35:39 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/amp-development-environment/m-p/94303#M64588 nyronian 2007-07-13T22:35:39Z Re: AMP Development Environment https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/amp-development-environment/m-p/94304#M64589 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>For testing purposes you could deploy to Tomcat using an 'exploded' approach. This basically means you don't need the WAR file which will save you time packaging it all up.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Follow these steps:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>1. Stop Tomcat</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>2. Delete the war file from the webapps folder and delete the webapps/alfresco folder</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>3. Re-create the alfresco folder under webapps and extract the WAR file (without your AMP) into it</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>4. Change your build script to copy all the AMP files directly to the webapps/alfresco folder</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>5. Start Tomcat</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This should save you a fair bit of time. Also using this approach it may be possible to get Eclipse to help but I'm not sure as I've never tried integrating Eclipse into the process.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Hope this helps.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:45:14 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/amp-development-environment/m-p/94304#M64589 gavinc 2007-07-17T07:45:14Z