Application Server 10.3.1Deployment Question

Question

Hi All,
I am fairly new to Oracle Development and Depoyments and need some direction on how to deploy properly.
Here is my environment - I have 6 Application Servers all configured exactly the same where I will deploy my App. Two load balanced servers for each location
Server A (West Coast)
Server B (West Coast)
Server C (East Coast)
Server D (East Coast)
Server E (UK)
Server F (UK)
Currently, I have one properties file in my application that holds all my configuration, connection string, so on and so on. This is where my first problem starts
In my properties files I am having to do this kind of thing
#A & B
SQLConnectionString=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://fcsql01:1433;user=generalread;password=5general6;databasename=general;SelectMethod=Cursor
SQLDriver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
#C & D
#SQLConnectionString=jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://DRGNETDB01:1433;user=generalread;password=5general6;databasename=general;SelectMethod=Cursor
#SQLDriver=net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver
When I deploy to A & B I have to comment out the details for C & D, deploy then change the properties file and then deploy to C & D....
As you can imagine this gets very annoying trying to keep track of all these details in the same file.
So after all that, here is my question. Is there a way that I can have seperate files that deploy to a specific server without having to constantly change the flie?
Also regarding deployment, how can I script my deployment to deploy to all servers without having to individually deploy each?
Any help would be appreciated, please let me know if there are any details about my app that will help answer this question?
Thanks

Answer 1

salsipius,
Nothing really to do with Oracle at all. Why not use data sources instead of a JDBC url? That way, you can have servers A+B with the datasource pointing to one database and servers A+B pointing to the different one. Your Java code would just get the data source instead of hard-coding a JDBC connection like that.
John