Hi Kai,<br><br>thanks for your suggestion. <br><br>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).<br>
<br>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).<br>
<br>What is more of a problem is the actual development process.<br><br>Here's what we'd like to do (more or less)<br><br>1. Create/change a JSP or JAR<br>2. Deploy it in OpenCMS (locally!)<br>3. Test it<br>4. Commit the changes to Subversion<br>
5. Deploy the JSP/JAR to the VFS<br><br><br>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.<br>
<br>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).<br>
<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Thomas<br><br><br>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.<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/3 Schliemann, Kai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:K.Schliemann@comundus.com">K.Schliemann@comundus.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-GB">Hi Thomas,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-GB">you might have a look at the OpenCms-Maven Plugin on <a href="http://opencms-maven.comundus.com/" target="_blank">http://opencms-maven.comundus.com/</a>.</span></p>
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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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-GB">If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate
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<a href="mailto:opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org" target="_blank">opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org" target="_blank">opencms-dev-bounces@opencms.org</a>] <b>Im
Auftrag von </b>Thomas Göttlich<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 3. Mai 2010 10:03<br>
<b>An:</b> <a href="mailto:opencms-dev@opencms.org" target="_blank">opencms-dev@opencms.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [opencms-dev] OpenCMS Development in a team</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi there,<br>
<br>
we're currently starting our first bigger project based on OpenCMS.<br>
<br>
However, we have some questions on how to setup a development environment that
is suitable for developing in a team.<br>
Thus, any help, ideas and suggestions are highly appreciated.<br>
<br>
First, I'd like to give a quick overview on our current development process:<br>
<br>
So far, we used a single shared database for development, so that any developer
can use the same test data.<br>
Development occured in otherwise isolated environments, i.e. each developer had
her own JBoss, own working copy etc.<br>
Source code distribution happened via Subversion whereas test data resided in
the shared data base.<br>
<br>
Additionally, we told JBoss where to find the application (especially the JSPs)
in our working copy.<br>
Thus we could just edit a JSP and immediately see the changes in the running
application.<br>
<br>
All this allowed us to code quickly, use the same test data without any hassle
etc.<br>
<br>
<br>
However, OpenCMS doesn't seem to support that approach.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Additionally, if we used a database per development machine, it would be
difficult to distribute the test data.<br>
<br>
The third point would be the instant editing of JSPs which doesn't seem to
work, since we'd need synchronization with the VFS.<br>
<br>
<br>
Do you have any ideas?<br>
<br>
Or any hint on how you do OpenCMS development in a bigger team.<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
Thomas</p>
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