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"Pragmatic Project Automation" Review
At 1:41 PM on Apr 18, 2005, Matthew Schmidt wrote:
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Re: "Pragmatic Project Automation" Review
I agree with Matthew, this is a great little book. In addition to what Matthew said, I also liked the book's coverage of system monitoring. The author describes a simple technique for monitoring a website so you can be notified almost immediately if it stops responding. He also describes how to use logging to monitor an application or server for SEVERE errors (e.g. database not responding); you create a logger in your application and simple cron job that runs a script that watches for any content in the log file that SEVERE-errors-logger writes to; if it finds content then it sends you an email.-Pete
Re: "Pragmatic Project Automation" Review
Hi,Is there anything in this book about howto automate the deployments of the builds ? what if it fails midway trough etc etc ? To me thats one of the issues still to resolve and so far i havent found much answers...
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Re: "Pragmatic Project Automation" Review
Hi Leo. I believe that the book briefly touches on how to use the Tomcat tasks in ant to hot deploy a new version of your war. There is also a little story in there about deploying to websphere. As far as I know, there isn't too much about what to do if it fails midway through. You may want to go to http://www.pragmaticprogrammers.com and contact Mike Clark about that, as I imagine he may have an answer.bestuff.com - the best stuff in the world