As a relative newcomer to Java web app development I'm hoping that somebody can help me with some idiot level instructions on how to deploy a web app from my development PC to a test server.

This is a Spring based web app, and I've extracted all the machine specific settings into a discrete 'environ.properties' file. Currently I'm running this web app against the MyEclipse Tomcat server.

When I deploy my web app to the test server I want to have a different version of the 'environ.properties' file that holds settings specific to the test server. How can I achieve this?

TIA.

davout,

I would recommend you go through sample tutorials and whitepapers here - http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-7.html
Also take a look at http://www.myeclipseide.com/documentation/quickstarts/webprojects/ - An introduction to creating, editing, deploying, running and testing web applications in MyEclipse.

MyEclipse also comes with Examples on Demand - these are sample projects created for new users. To access open MyElipse IDE, from menu options click on MyEclipse > Examples on Demand. This will open the Examples on Demand browser. Click on [install project] to checkout any EOD to your project explorer. Please refer README.txt which includes information on the sample EOD and steps to run.

Sorry, but I don't see anything in the two tutorials you suggested that covers the problem I have described.

davout,

What is the test server you are referring to? Is it configured within MyEclipse or outside MyEclipse?

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This is a Spring based web app, and I've extracted all the machine specific settings into a discrete 'environ.properties' file. Currently I'm running this web app against the MyEclipse Tomcat server. When I deploy my web app to the test server I want to have a different version of the 'environ.properties' file that holds settings specific to the test server. How can I achieve this?

Can you elaborate on what this environ.properties contain? And where have you included it? Can you attach either a screenshot or copy-paste the contents here?

My 'environ.properties' file includes a number of machine specific settings like..

Code:

site.url=http://localhost:8080/skap/ mail.sender.host=smtp.dsl.pipex.com mail.sender.port=25 mail.sender.username=davout@dsl.pipex.com mail.sender.from=davout@dsl.pipex.com database.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/skap database.uid=root database.pwd=root

In my Spring context file I use the property place holder configurer bean to push these machine specific settings into various bean properties, like...

Code:

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">       <property name="locations">          <value>classpath:environ.properties</value>       </property>    </bean>    <bean id="EnvironManager" class="com.eis.environ.EnvironManager">       <property name="siteURL" value="${site.url}" />       <property name="mailSenderFrom" value="${mail.sender.from}" />    </bean>    <bean id="MailSender" class="org.springframework.mail.javamail.JavaMailSenderImpl">       <property name="host" value="${mail.sender.host}"/>       <property name="port" value="${mail.sender.port}"/>       <property name="username" value="${mail.sender.username}"/>       <property name="password" value="${mail.sender.password}"/>    </bean>

In order to deploy my test app from my local development test machine to a test server I want to deploy the code with a different 'environ.properties' file that reflects the settings for th e test server. Want I like to do is have another WAR I can build that uses all the development project resources but with its own local environ.properties' file version.

Geddit?

Well???

I posted the same question on the SpringSource support forums, and received a reply that suggested that I exlude my properties file from the build process, and instead include this as a separate deliverable.

It's a clever idea but I'm not sure if this will work when running my app inside the MyEclipse IDE and have the source/binaries copied to the MyEclipse Tomcat server at run time. How would I...
* Exclude the environ.properties file from the build process
* Separately copy the environ.properties file to the MyEclipse Tomcat server

Whether this works or not, I think your product still has a functional limitation in not offering the deployment of web apps to other remote servers.