如何对在Apache Tomcat上运行的War应用程序使用版本控制

Question

How to use versioning for a war application running on Apache Tomcat?

My war suffix contains version of the current war like: myApp-web-2.0.1.war

What I want to achieve is create o folder named dist or else in order to see which versions were deployed before the current one.

I would like to hear your approaches, and best practises. Thanks.

Answer 1

Are you building your WAR file with Ant? Maven would provide a versioning strategy for you inherently with the tag in your pom.xml.

Assuming you are using Ant, I would recommend keeping your current deployable named myApp-web.war and then copying that artifact out to an archive directory with a <major>.<minor>.<increment> extension to keep unique version history on each subsequent build. If you keep all your historic artifacts in the deploy directory, Tomcat is going to deploy them all which probably is not your desired behavior. It sounds like you are just after a version archival.