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Identity Manager: adding versioning information to your deployment

Identity Manager projects using the NetBeans IDE plugin usually face the problem that when deploying the application e.g. idm.war and loading the custom objects in the database repository (e.g. via lh import custom-init-full.xml). If you use Subversion or CVS, there is a quick and easy way to include a revision number with every build. There a two components which need a revision number:

• the web application (here we include a page called 'about.html' which dislays the svn revision number)
• the repository (here we add a dummy IDM object e.g. an E-Mail Template which contains the revision number of the working copy when building idm.war). If you import your custom-init-full.xml file, the E-Mail will be imported into the repository. We will use a JSP to retrieve the object from within the BUI

Posted at 07:13AM Jul 19, 2009 by steffo in Identity Systems  |  Comments[0]