Deploy Process and actuality of different Environments

[r***@clavisit.com]

We are using WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 Business Edition and have one B2C
direct Shop and one extended sites B2C shop on a productive system.
The next steps are to deploy a B2B Store and to migrate the B2C direct to
the extended site model.

My problem is the update process of the given shops and the actuality of
the development environment.


The update process is my biggest problem. I do manually copy the files
which are changed and tested in the productive system. For example replace
the file CachedProductOnlyDisplay.jsp.
To recompile this file and to delete the cache I have to edit and save the
ProductDisplay.jsp and restart the Service of the only WebSphere Commerce
Instance. So all shops are down and that's quite bad ;-(...
I also tried the JSPBatchCompiler and deleting the files in the temp folder
(C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\temp\...), but there is no acceptable result...

Is there no possibility to deploy whole stores from the development
environment (WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.1.2) to the test
environment and the productive environment?


We have a test environment and a development environment.
The problem of the actuality of these system is solved in the test
environment. We do a full backup (image) of the productive system and
recreate the test system with this image. This work fine...
In the development environment do I try to recreate the whole functionality
which are used in the productive system. This is a lot of work and I asking
me if there is no better solution. Do you have some hints?

[geo]

You can definitely deploy stores from the development environment using ant
or other scripting language.

You would likely want to set the reload interval to allow the pages to be
reloaded periodically but that is not going to help you if you are trying to
make immediate changes.

Likely anything that you want to allow to change dynamically should be in
the dynamic properties file.

Do you have deployment windows and a standard build process? Not to be
critical but it sounds like you are just adhoc changing pages on your server
during business hours without a standardized build window, etc.

To get around what you mention normally you would ripple start your cluster,
if you are only a single server that does not help you much.

Post by r***@clavisit.com
We are using WebSphere Commerce 5.6.1 Business Edition and have one B2C
direct Shop and one extended sites B2C shop on a productive system.
The next steps are to deploy a B2B Store and to migrate the B2C direct to
the extended site model.
My problem is the update process of the given shops and the actuality of
the development environment.
The update process is my biggest problem. I do manually copy the files
which are changed and tested in the productive system. For example replace
the file CachedProductOnlyDisplay.jsp.
To recompile this file and to delete the cache I have to edit and save the
ProductDisplay.jsp and restart the Service of the only WebSphere Commerce
Instance. So all shops are down and that's quite bad ;-(...
I also tried the JSPBatchCompiler and deleting the files in the temp folder
(C:\IBM\WebSphere\AppServer\temp\...), but there is no acceptable result...
Is there no possibility to deploy whole stores from the development
environment (WebSphere Studio Application Developer 5.1.2) to the test
environment and the productive environment?
We have a test environment and a development environment.
The problem of the actuality of these system is solved in the test
environment. We do a full backup (image) of the productive system and
recreate the test system with this image. This work fine...
In the development environment do I try to recreate the whole
functionality
which are used in the productive system. This is a lot of work and I asking
me if there is no better solution. Do you have some hints?