Originally posted by Solo Chiang:
Hi to all
In another words, they don't need to do any real deployment, since their work
I think you've just answered your own question. WebLogic is fairly heavy, so the less starting, stopping, and redeploying people have to do, the faster they can spin through the code/compile/test cycle.
On the other hand, becoming over-dependent on the internal deployment infrastructure of WebLogic is a little dangerous, since if they change it, the whole project structure will have to be re-evaluated.
I do something similar with
Tomcat, however. The difference is that Tomcat can be configured to run apps that are installed outside of Tomcat itself, so I just point Tomcat to the part of the project where I build my WAR. It's a fully-sanctioned way of configuring Tomcat, so I have almost no risk that future releases of Tomcat will find it disagreeable.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.