alfresco deployment and build

[srik]

Hi,

We have a source control repository to manage Alfresco extensions (I mean customizations). We would like to know how to manage build process of our Alfresco customizations and deploy the same in Tomcat. Also, Is it advisable to integrate Alfresco build with Continuous integration system.

Regards,
Srik

[mitpatoliya]

You have various options for managing deployment and build.

1) create automated script based on ANT which check out the latest code related to your customizations from SVN pickup the vanilla alfresco.war file and update that war file.
then you can use that war file to deploy on your various environments.

2) Script which will create AMP file after checking out latest code from SVN. then you can use that AMP file to deploy on server.

You can also opt for mavan.

You can have different property files related to each environments which will help you to manage environment specific properties.

Hope this gives you some idea.