Hi Marina,
>
> If you never reinstall GF, won't you miss any updates to anything else
> in the GF structure, like the domain.xml?
Yes, you are correct! Once in a while (or whenever I become aware of any
template/layout changes), I will reinstall.
But it looking like linking jars will actually not work, so one has to
copy recompiled jars.
Thanks,
-Yamini
>
> thanks,
> -marina
>
> Yamini K B wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to share some scripts which I'm sure would help those
>> who are new to GlassFish development.
>>
>> When I first started trying out changes to the code, I used to forget
>> to copy the built jar into the installation modules folder at times
>> and would end up wasting a lot of time in trying to figure out what
>> went wrong. And then, I started to link the concerned jars. However,
>> whenever I updated and built the complete workspace (which I do
>> almost everyday), I had to erase the exiting installation and unzip
>> the distribution again which I found very annoying.
>>
>> Unfortunately, Justin's scripts (see mail thread here
>> <https://glassfish.dev.java.net/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=17159>)
>> didn't work for me, so I wrote my own scripts.
>>
>> 1. reinstall.sh: My first attempt was a simple script to parse 'svn
>> update' output to identify changed modules and copy the updated jars
>> into the installation folder. This script requires some pre-steps. (I
>> don't actually use this script anymore!)
>> 2. linkme.sh: My next script creates links only for specific module
>> jar(s)
>> 3. linkall.sh: After that, I went a step further and thought why not
>> link all jars.
>>
>> So now, my installation is always up to date no matter how many times
>> I update/build my workspace or modules :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Yamini
>>
>>
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