ActiveMatrix SOA

Who is responsible for management of XML deployment configuration file in your organization? Is it Developer or Administrators?

Tony,

Thank you very much for your response.

There is actually no standard way that even Tibco can recommand to manage environment specific as most companies wants to use build and deployment of application very quickly via automated scripts. XML deployment configuration files makes very easy for build and deployment team to perform task.

In my organization we ended up with following exact same procedure. Initially we tried to create framework which would convert global variables in .properties file where each global variables would display in <name>=<value> pairs. Developers are responsible for generating this .properties file using custom ant framework. But we faced exact same problem as you did with teaching method to non-ant development community. Eventually rather than convincing and providing training during each deployment cycle, XML deployment files maintained by developers and putting into repository satisfied excting organizational build and deployment process. However, developer community still complains too much about maintaining deployment configuration file.

Let's hope that someone has better alternative than our same approach.

-Divyesh Patel