Best practice to maintain code across different environments

Hi All,
We have a portal application and we use
JDEV version: 11.1.1.6
fusion middleware control 11.1.1.6
In our application we have created many portlets by using iframe inside our jspx files and few are in navigation file as well and the URL's corresponding to these portlets are different
across the environments (dev,test and prod). we are using subversion to maintain our code .
problem we are having is: Apart from changing environment details while deploying to Test and prod, we also have to change the portlet URL' s from dev portlet URL's to corresponding env manually.
so is there any best practice to avoid this cumbersome task? can we achieve this by creating deployment profile?
Thanks
Kotresh

Hi.
Put a sample of the two different URLs. Anyway you can use EL Expression to get current host instead of hardcoded. In addition, you can think in using a common DNS mapped in hosts file for all environments.
Regards.

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Edited by: 948115 on Jul 23, 2012 6:19 AM

948115 wrote:
Dear All,
This is Priya.
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Edited by: 948115 on Jul 23, 2012 6:19 AM

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