deployment

What is the purpose of the NetBeans 6 'Server Resources' Folder?

In a new JBoss Web Application or EJB project in NetBeans, the 'Server Resources' folder contains two files: jboss-ds.xml jboss4-netbeans-destinations-service.xml However these files are not included in the generated application JAR file. What is the purpose of these files? jboss-ds.xml looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encodin...

Why does my ASP.NET MVC application work from a virtual directory, but not from a website?

I created an ASP.NET MVC application on my local computer under IIS 7.5 (Windows 7 RC) in a virtual directory (like http://localhost/MyApp). Now that I'm trying to deploy it to a remote server I get strange results. The application seems to route every request to the Forms Authentication login form, and requests for static content (fro...

Multiple services on same JBoss server?

We're developing a few new services that will run on JBoss and will be accessible by REST API-s. These will be Java apps bundled into EAR files. Is it a good practice to deploy these services to the same JBoss server? This would simplify dev, deployment and testing. Not sure if there are any big drawbacks. Would there be limited...

Tools and Methods

What tools and procedures would you recommend or use yourself to help streamline the following sceanario: (I know its a long one but any help is appreciated) I work in a team that have an ecommerce app that we develop at our company. Its a reasonably standard LAMP application that we have been developing on and off for about 3 years. We...

What have your ASP.Net MVC deployment experiences been?

I've been waging a bit of a battle with MVC recently, trying to get it deployed and working correctly on my web host server. While the host (ixwebhosting) has been very prompt and efficient at resolving some of the technical difficulties, I'm still encountering odd behaviours around getting the views to render. Specific issues I've str...

SMTP and XMPP deployment/workflow

I'm developing a website that incorporates an XMPP bot and a custom SMTP server (mainly these services process commands and reply). I'd like to set up a system where I can develop locally, push changes to a staging server, and finally to a production system. (Essentially I'm developing on the live server currently.) I'm using python, ...

Tomcat does not undeploy all the files.

All, I am using tomcat 5. and i am using manager application to undeploy a war file from remote. It deletes war file and all extracted files. But it does not delete one jar(lib/struts.jar) file. I do not know what the reason is. I need to delete all the files even the webserver(tomcat5) is running. Thanks, Srinivsan r. ...

SSL certificate for HTTPs, activex signing and most mobile phone SDKs

Hello, this is mostly a deployement than a programming question. If I were to buy an SSL certificate from a CA, would I be able to use it to sign other applications (such as symbian, android, iphone ones)? If so, what (re)seller would you recommend? ...

Is there good deployment and administration for Java environments?

We already have a good build server in Hudson but we want something that would let us startup and shutdown servers, push out new deployments of software (which is much more involved than just a single WAR or EAR going somewhere, there is copying, extracting, renaming, etc.), and various other tasks we would like to automate. I've looked...

Deploying rails application to multiple environments

I am getting ready to deploy to a true production environment. When I say true I mean that my current production environment will now be staging because there is other crap on the server and I am creating a new larger slice for what will actually be my production machine. The capistrano-ext gem has made separating the deploy recipes qu...

How to deploy a hotfix in a ClickOnce application?

I recently discoverd that there is a bug in the dutch .Net assembly that effectively breaks NavigationWindows on dutch vista SP1 or higher. See for details this link A hotfix is available, but how can I distribute this with my ClickOnce application? I am appalled that this situation, that seems to be known since february, has not been r...

Scripting Local Security Policy

On a servers Local Security Policy I need to give a user rights to "Allow logon locally". How do I do that through a script? ...

Deploying a Django website without access to httpd.conf (with or without mod_wsgi)

Can I deploy a django app with only write permissions in a particular folder on the server? For a recent work, I asked the admin to modify the .conf for me (and install mod_wsgi which was not present), but it would have been much less painful if I could have deployed the app by just uploading the files. (on apache) I don't have much e...

Deploying projects with multiple dependancies (Visual Studio)

I have a solution - for example, called MyCompany. MyCompany has many projects, for example: MyCompany.Common (common class library - doesn't contain references to other MyCompany assemblies) MyComapny.Entites (Business objects) MyCompany.Data(Data layer) MyCompany.Logic(BLL layer) MyCompany.Web (web ui) MyCompany.SuperWindowsService ...

Incremental deployment with JBoss

Can I have incremental deployment with JBoss AS? Currently, the only reasons I pay for a MyEclipse license is their "Smart Deployment" feature where if I make a small correction to a JSF page, I don't have to redeploy the whole app, but instead my IDE syncs the change. Why isn't there something similar to NetBeans??? ...

Rebranding Application Resources in .NET 2.0

I'm about to start writing a tool in .NET 2.0 (C#), and the tool needs to be re-brandable to be sold for use by other companies. We'll compile the tool in house, with other company's resources, so they don't get the source, just the generated output. Since the re-branding will use the same default language, how do you manage multiple r...

Sharepoint bug when deactivating features

I have found that deactivating a feature in Sharepoint leaves erroneous entries in the AllDocs table in the content database. These table records then make deploying other features that contain the same filenames impossible as Sharepoint complains that they already exist. How can I make sure deactivating features does not leave old refer...

How to install an application to iPhone without iTunes?

We want to move an application to iPhone, without iTunes. There are two questions: 1) how does the application which moves other applications to iPhone connect to iPhone? 2) if we use iTunes to do that, which method implement connecting to iPhone in iTunes's API. ...

Deployment projects for multiple sites

I have 7 sites that should be deployed to my DEV server, then to my QA server and in the end to the PROD servers. Currently everything is done manually, but it's a chore. Today I looked at the Deployment solutions, but it seems it's one deployment solution per site. Is there a way to have multiple sites deployed with one action? ...

What are SSIS packages deployment and change-tracking best practices ?

I've got quite a robust development environment regarding my SQL database Schema and Data (everything is source controlled, deployment is automated, etc), but when it comes to SSIS packages, the process is quite tedious and totally manual. How can I automate the SSIS package upgrade process (right now, I copy my packages manually to ea...