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Re: [wtp-dev] WTP update site
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Jeffrey Liu wrote:
Hi,
We'll need an update site when WTP 0.7 goes out the door. I have created
an Ant script that semi-automates the creation of the update site. I
would like to get your feedbacks on this. Here's how it works. Say you
want to generate an update site for RC1, you would run the following
command:
ant -DbuildType=S -DbuildId=0.7RC1 -Dtimestamp=200507150303
If you'd like, you can add prompts for some or all of these parameters
to make things easier to remember. For example, the following comes
from Matt Raible's AppFuse build file[1]:
<!-- Prompt user for input -->
<input message="What would you like to name your application [myapp]?"
addproperty="app.name" defaultvalue="myapp"/>
<input message="And your database [mydb]?" addproperty="db.name"
defaultvalue="mydb"/>
<input message="What about a package name [org.appfuse]?"
addproperty="new.pkg.name" defaultvalue="org.appfuse"/>
[1]
https://appfuse.dev.java.net/source/browse/appfuse/build.xml?rev=1.95&view=auto&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
This will produce a zip file with site.xml and all the update jars in
it. By default, the generated update jars will have a 4th digit version
in them. Therefore, we can have milestone updates or even integration
build updates. For updates between releases (0.7, 1.0, 1.5 and etc...).
You would run the following command instead:
ant -DbuildType=<type> -DbuildId=<id> -Dtimestamp=<timestamp> -skip4thPart
This will generate update jars without the 4th digit version.
After the zip file is created, we need to manually upload and unzip it
to the download server. For release updates, unzip it to
"webtools/updates". For milestone updates, unzip it to
"webtools/updates-milestones".
There are very convenient Ant FTP tasks that can automate this as well,
however they require the loading of two additional Apache JARs in client
Ant installs. You would also probably need to unzip prior to FTP'ing as
well.
Glen
