Setting up development environment with several projects

Question

We struggle with Workshop when having a large workshop application. One way of getting out of this issue was to use several deployments and to use WSRP as a mechanism to get resources from several deployed portlet applications. Performance isn't an issue for our deployment.
This setup might help us with having smaller Workshop applications and making the development environment more efficient, but we see some issues with this.
- Framework package
How should we handle the framework part with CSS files. Duplicating these framework files is not a good solution since some developers most certainly will forget to update all framework files when editing them.
- Portal Administration
Can we just drop the portal administration web app in the most of the workshop application?
- Data project
We use a custom UUP. How should this be handled when splitting the workshop application into several smaller applications?
Trond Andersen, Invenia AS, http://www.invenia.no

Answer 1

I used this for a little different purpose; we wanted to generate the whole development environment at one mouse click (formsweb.cfg, reports server etc.); as we used ANT for creating the svn local working copy for each developer we used ANT for this. but you can also use perl or bash :D.
I'd create one template, then loop through all directorys and append the configs to a temp file
/var
     /you
     /not_you=> create one config section named as the folder in the temp file basing on your template.
in your real formsweb.cfg you might append a line like
# THE DEVELOPER CONFIGS STARTS HERE
after that you locate your config-entries.
when the temp formsweb.cfg is ready, simply delete everything after
# THE DEVELOPER CONFIGS STARTS HERE
and append the configs from the temp file.
That's the way I'd do this ;)
regards