Help needed on weblogic portal source control under CVS

Question

Hi,
Is that good or bad to put all the portaldomain under CVS control? eg.
my portal domain directory structure under development environment is
like the following:
c:\myportaldomain --|
|--beaApps
|---portalApp
| |---------myportalApplication
|
|---portalApp-project
I think the stuff I need to put under CVS are "myportalApplication"
and "portalApp-project" directories.
However, I want to organize the CVS directory structure like the
following:
c:\myportalmodule --|
|--src
|--docs
|--"myportalApplication"
|--"portalApp-project"
So this means: after I checkout from CVS, I need to copy the two
directories "myportalApplication" and "portalApp-project" from
c:\myportalmodule into corresponding sub-directories under
c:\myportaldomain, before I can do any development and testing. also,
if I make some changes on c:\myportaldomain, and I want to checkin, I
need to copy those files back to c:\myportalmodule. I tried to use
directory softlink, but it windows NT just offer shortcut, which
doesn't work.
Can somebody give some education how to integerate the weblogic portal
with CVS source control systems?
Thanks very much

Answer 1

Hi Rene,
Thanks for the very helpful info.
I think maybe I have a idea how to set up the dev environment now,
basically I will organize the CVS repository and weblogic directories
in the same way.
c:\myportalmodule--|
|---myportaldomain
| |---beaApps
| |---portalApp
| | |---------myportalApplication
| |
| |---portalApp-project
|--src
|--docs
|--build.xml
So before everybody can checkout any code from CVS, he need to
configure a new domain named "myportaldomain" in c:\myportalmodule
directory. Since the CVS and his domain have the same directory
structure, so when he do the fully checkout, the files will actually
be put into the right place, and he can checkin his files easily.
one annoying thing is that, since there are other files (such as
startPortal.bat,etc )generated by domain configuration wizard in
c:\myportalmodule\myportaldomain, which are not in CVS repository. so
everytime, we do a checkout, CVS will issue the warnings saying those
files are in CVS repository. Please advise is there any potential
problems or issues with this setup? Thanks for your help!!!!!
"René Zanner" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
Hi,
we did a similar thing, but we put the whole beaApps directory in the CVS, because
we had more applications and also modified some things inside the tools application
of BEA...
With CVS you can do a 'partial' checkout of your module, that means you do not
need to copy the folders back and forth, but you can check in and update directly
in you domain directory.
The command for a partial checkout is:
cvs co -d <name of destination folder> <module name>/<path to your folder>
Once checked out here, you can work with the files like in the complete checkout.
HTH,
René
[email protected] (mouse) wrote:
Hi,
Is that good or bad to put all the portaldomain under CVS control? eg.
my portal domain directory structure under development environment is
like the following:
c:\myportaldomain --|
|--beaApps
|---portalApp
| |---------myportalApplication
|
|---portalApp-project
I think the stuff I need to put under CVS are "myportalApplication"
and "portalApp-project" directories.
However, I want to organize the CVS directory structure like the
following:
c:\myportalmodule --|
|--src
|--docs
|--"myportalApplication"
|--"portalApp-project"
So this means: after I checkout from CVS, I need to copy the two
directories "myportalApplication" and "portalApp-project" from
c:\myportalmodule into corresponding sub-directories under
c:\myportaldomain, before I can do any development and testing. also,
if I make some changes on c:\myportaldomain, and I want to checkin, I
need to copy those files back to c:\myportalmodule. I tried to use
directory softlink, but it windows NT just offer shortcut, which
doesn't work.
Can somebody give some education how to integerate the weblogic portal
with CVS source control systems?
Thanks very much