How to use GlassFish application versioning

Few weeks ago, a new “awesome” feature made appearence in the GlassFish Milestone 1. This feature, the “Application versioning”, aims to help you deal with the multiple versions of your Java EE applications in a simple and easy way with the usual GlassFish administration commands. This feature allows users to deploy multiple versions of the same application in a GlassFish server at runtime with only one version enabled at a time. The application versioning provides a full set of commands to interact with the versions of an application naturally integrated in existing CLI commands. The “versions” of an application can be pretty much anything because a version is really just a qualifier so you can use you maven version identifiers for instance (SNAPSHOT, BETA, etc ... ) or anything you want as version. Also there is no notion of “version sequence” so you can easily switch to any version from any other (actually GlassFish deals with a version like it’s an individual application). And now, a little user story. To present how to use application versioning, let me introduce Robert   Robert is a Java EE developer and a GlassFish enthousiast since long time. Robert uses GlassFish on his laptop, on a “Continuous Build” server and on the production server. Right now, Robert is writting a very cool Java EE application, called “Foo”, and hopes to become ...

Date: August, 30 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/serli/archive/2010/08/05/how-use-glassfish-application-versioning

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