WCEM Best Practice deployment in a multi CRM Landscape

Hi SCN
Im looking for advice in relation to best practice deployment of WCEM. Specifically in a multi CRM landscape scenario.
Do best practices exist?
JR

Look into using NWDI as your source code control (DTR) and transport/migration from dev through to production. This also will handle the deployment to your dev system (check-in/activate).
For unit testing and debugging you should be running a local version (NWDW). This way once the code is ready to be shared with the team, you check it in (makes it visible to other team members) and activate it (deploys it to development server).
We are currently using a separate server for WD applications rather than running them on the portal server. However, this does not allow for the WD app to run in the new WD iView. So it depends on what the WD app needs to do an have access to. Of course there is always the Federated Portal Network as an option, but that is a whole other topic.
For JCo connections, WD uses a connection name and this connection can be set up to point to different locations depending on which server it is on. So on the development server the JCo connection can point to the dev back-end and in prod point to the prod back-end. The JCo connections are not migrated, but setup in each system.
I hope this helps. There is a lot of documentation available for NWDI to get you started. See: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/01/9c4940d1ba6913e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
-Cindy

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