Chapter 16. Deployment
| 16.1 | How to survive deployment |
| 16.2 | Deploying with Ant |
| 16.3 | Database setup in Ant |
| 16.4 | Deploying with SmartFrog |
| 16.5 | Using SmartFrog with Ant |
| 16.6 | Embracing deployment |
| 16.7 | Summary |
We’ve been deploying web applications since chapter 12. It’s now time to look at deployment in detail—all the way to production. Before we start, we need to revisit the question: What is deployment?
According to application server vendors, deployment is just “deploy-by-copy,” such as copying a WAR or EAR file into a directory. Since all application servers now support this, isn’t deployment done? Hardly. The real problem is not getting the application to the remote machine, or even getting the application loaded by the application server. ...
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