[opencms-dev] OpenCMS Development in a team

[Thomas Göttlich]

Hi Kai,

thanks for your suggestion.

Unfortunately, our project management recently decided against Maven for
this project, so we will have to use Ant (there was one killer argument by
fellow developers which made our management decide against maven - although
I don't agree with that).

However, I guess it should be no problem to do the synchronization via the
CmsShell or use a small plugin that exposes the necessary functionality as a
webservice (in order to cut down the CmsShell startup times).

What is more of a problem is the actual development process.

Here's what we'd like to do (more or less)

1. Create/change a JSP or JAR
2. Deploy it in OpenCMS (locally!)
3. Test it
4. Commit the changes to Subversion
5. Deploy the JSP/JAR to the VFS


The problem here is the concurrent development of a JSP or JAR, i.e. if I
make some changes and deploy it to the VFS in order to test it, I might
overwrite another developer's code (if she did also deploy it to the VFS) or
break the others' systems if my code doesn't work.

With a shared OpenCMS database we'd actually work on a single VFS and making
changes there would have similar effects as commiting faulty code into
version control (i.e. subsequent updates on other machines would break the
software there).


Best regards,

Thomas


P.S.: I already found your Maven plugin and it looks great. However, I'd
like to ask some questions even if we're not able to use it for our current
project.


2010/5/3 Schliemann, Kai <K.Schliemann at comundus.com>

>  Hi Thomas,
>
> you might have a look at the OpenCms-Maven Plugin on
> http://opencms-maven.comundus.com/.
>
> The plugin uses Maven to automatically build OpenCms projects. A
> maven-vfs-plugin retrieves the data from the vfs an writes them to the file
> system (actually it is doing a vfs sync). Now it is easy to  use your
> versioning system to exchange your code changes between the developers.
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> If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask.
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> *Von:* opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:
> opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] *Im Auftrag von *Thomas Göttlich
> *Gesendet:* Montag, 3. Mai 2010 10:03
> *An:* opencms-dev at opencms.org
> *Betreff:* [opencms-dev] OpenCMS Development in a team
>
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> we're currently starting our first bigger project based on OpenCMS.
>
> However, we have some questions on how to setup a development environment
> that is suitable for developing in a team.
> Thus, any help, ideas and suggestions are highly appreciated.
>
> First, I'd like to give a quick overview on our current development
> process:
>
> So far, we used a single shared database for development, so that any
> developer can use the same test data.
> Development occured in otherwise isolated environments, i.e. each developer
> had her own JBoss, own working copy etc.
> Source code distribution happened via Subversion whereas test data resided
> in the shared data base.
>
> Additionally, we told JBoss where to find the application (especially the
> JSPs) in our working copy.
> Thus we could just edit a JSP and immediately see the changes in the
> running application.
>
> All this allowed us to code quickly, use the same test data without any
> hassle etc.
>
>
> However, OpenCMS doesn't seem to support that approach.
>
> As far as I know, OpenCMS needs all JSPs (and maybe the jars, too) to
> reside in the VFS which would make using a shared database for OpenCMS quite
> difficult.
>
> Additionally, if we used a database per development machine, it would be
> difficult to distribute the test data.
>
> The third point would be the instant editing of JSPs which doesn't seem to
> work, since we'd need synchronization with the VFS.
>
>
> Do you have any ideas?
>
> Or any hint on how you do OpenCMS development in a bigger team.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Thomas
>
>
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