Custom Deployment

[tjholmes]

I was just wondering if it would be possible to build a custom deployment.
I've gone to the deployment Wiki to see all the possibilities it already has.
One of the requirements we might have is to deploy a web-site to a database structure. 

So, would we have modify the source code of Deployment, or add another function to Deployment.   Or, maybe even create a new action not called Deployment.   We'd want to add this to WCM so that when the users are done, then we can take a snapshot of that project and push it to a database.

[kvc]

Great …

What I'd recommend is using our remote file system deployment receiver first to incrementally push a snapshot to a remote server, and implement a custom action to be executed by the remote deployment receiver upon successful commit of changes to take deployed XML files and load them into your DB using whatever DB-schema mappings your need.

If you implement as a remote-server-side extension of deployment, I would love for you to open it up as a projecton our forge site so that (a) others may benefit and (b) we can potentially incorporate into our base distribution and collaborate with you on ongoing future enhancements.

Let us know how this goes and how we can help.


Kevin