Using CARM for complex managed OTAP environments

To all
As all of you out there we have a Normal OTAP SAP street (GED/QAS/PRD) with a Solution manager and CHARM. So far so good.
We, as most company’s, have an Education system (GEO) for training users when new functional objects were implemented. Until now releases where transported through our OTAP street via Charm. When new objects should be trained the corresponding transports are loaded in the GEO system via TR STMS.
All’s well but thinking about this why can’t CHARM be used to do this?
Lets state a new function. So the Object is:
1 developed in GED
2 transported to QAS and tested
3 transported to PRD
All controlled by Charm, via the transport routs (STMS)
As this being a new function before transporting it to PRD, we import (by hand) in the Education system GEO. It can by under control of Charm but this route DEV/QAS/GEO/PRD is not always the case. Some time’s the route could be DEV/QAS/PRD/GEO or DEV/GEO/QAS/PRD. Or even only DEV/QAS/PRD.
This depends on a time factor, when they would like to start training users.
Can a flexible Project construction in CHARM towards this GEO system been build?
Is it possible to release the transports to GEO at a point in time when we want it. Or can a transport at QAS when approved, put them in GEP and GEO. All under control of CHARM
henk

Have a look at the jboss web site for reference sites - someone has asked the same sort of question as yourself there. I don't know about the scalability etc personally as I've just started using it, but it does seem well designed. The documentation isn't as comprehensive as you might get from BEA or IBM, but then again, the server is free and the documentation costs $10, as opposed to paying $10000 for an app server. If you read the documents and ask good questions you will get up to speed with it. The support seems very good - as long as you ask an intelligent question ( there are a few threads in this forum about how to do that.)

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Tommy Sams wrote:
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