Recommended way to organize JSF big application on daily builds

Question

We are working in a big team, building a web application in JSF, where each developer develops new task. For example: User Management, Security, System Parameters etc.

We need to create a daily task to build the WAR from the SVN.

We know how to use daily builder, SVN etc.

Our question is how to save it per module? What is the recommended way to build by packages web application as JSF where it's build on MVC module and the pages are part of the bean? Should we use many WARs/Packages?

I need to save it per module, since some days there could errors in one module that shouldn't be uploaded with the rest of the modules. (I know how to compile and find decide if to upload it or not).

Answer 1

You could use "work branch(es)" (or "module branches") in which the development of a module occur. The trunk would contain everything, developers working on a given "module branch" would merge from trunk to work every day but publish to trunk only once work fully done (done includes tests are passing). Something like this (picture from Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams):

The above picture illustrates a "work branches" per team approach but one could imagine using a finer grained approach and use work branches per modules. The principles are similar.

Then you put the trunk and all the "work branches" under continuous integration.