Best Practices for Staging

Hey Guys!
We are currently evaluating Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse with one of our new projects.
As we are moving from development phase to QA, we are looking for ways to standardize the staging process. Up to now we were unable to figure out how or where OEPE creates the artifacts (war & ear files) before they are deployed to the remote target environment (Weblogic Server) for tests during development. We had assumed that OEPE uses a simple ANT file or something similar we could use for our staging environments.
Is there a Best Practice for Staging? What does Oracle recommend?
Thanks in advance - Alex

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to know the best practices to deploy SharePoint Portal in different SharePoint environment.
If the site is not existing in the production server, we can save the site from the development server, and then import it to the production server.
But if the site is already existing in the production server, we should follow these steps to just add the taxonomy and content types to the production server:
Save the site from Dev as a template
Import the template as solution in Visual Studio
Remove unnecessary items from the solution(Please pay more attention on it. If a content type/list... in the solution is existing in the production site too, it will replace the
same object existing in the production after deployment)
Package the solution
Deploy the solution in the production
For more detailed, please see:
http://ahmedmadany.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/importing-sharepoint-solution-package-wsp-into-visual-studio-2010/
There is a similar thread for your reference.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7dcf61a8-1af2-4f83-a04c-ff6c439e8268/best-practices-guide-for-deploying-sharepoint-2010-from-dev-to-test-to-production?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
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