How to build multi-configuration war file in Jenkins

Question

Am very new this kind of S/W development industry and since am here as system engineer, my task is to implement a Build and Release management system using Jenkins. So, far am able to install, configure and even build the war files for my java proj using maven after checking out the sourcecode from my svn. Now the actual task it to build mutliple war file for the same proj for my different environment like UAT, Staging and Prod. I dont want to create multiple jobs, however I would like to use the multi-configuration option to achieve this. So, can anyone please help me in doing this?

Thanks, Sree

Answer 1

I strongly advise against building environment specific release binaries. Instead address what it is that makes one environment different from another. Generally it is configuration held in property files recording information like:

• Database URLs and credentials
• System sizing information
• ..

Baking this into the release makes your software very inflexible. For example why should you have to rebuild your software everytime the database password is changed?

The solution is the use of standards like JNDI. In tomcat you can use context files to set datasources and other variables.