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ssellmeyer · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Is this a deployment software program?

spampete · Site Admin Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 89

hello

if you mean by deployement software an application that helps installing some application on all the desktops of a company, then no, it is not exactly a deployement software.

AVS is a source configuration management sofware. In a certain way though, it will help deploying the sources of the projects people are working on in a software company.

But it will do more than this, it will control the source configuration to download: you can imagine that the software you are working on has several versions. Through configuration, you will download the sources of one or another version. Or even all of them in separate folders, when this feature is available (in the next release to come).

Of course, even if AVS is more dedicated to software development, you can always put exe and other kind of file under control, but the thing is that downloading on clients is always at the initiative of clients, and it will only do downloading, not executing any kind of script or any of the downloaded files, if these are executable.

However, if you feel that some enhancements of such kind could help you and improve AVS in its task, please submit your thoughts here, we will review them to see how they could be appended to the roadmap.

does this help ?

ssellmeyer · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Yes, thank-you.
I'm looking for a free software configuration management tool. Any ideas?

spampete · Site Admin Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 89

According to your initial post, I understand that you are looking for a solution that would help you deploying softwares over your company, something like this ?

I cannot give you a reference now of such a tool, but I can have a look next week.

y · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Hi,

i got a question. Does AVS have automatic deployment Agent for Tomcat Server? My team work seperat on the development of XML and java files.
I am searching a sccm tools for XML deployment with change management process support.

best regards,
Y

spampete · Site Admin Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 89

Hi,

yes, AVS main setup will deploy Tomcat 5.5 if not found. It may also deploy PostegreSQL database if not found and the user chooses to install it, for indeed the setup allows AVS using a remote database, in which case you will only have to give the database host adress.

If you are looking for a SCM tool containing both source control and bug tracking, AVS can be a good choice, enjoy!!

best regards,

Pierre

croc · Joined: 01 Feb 2009 Posts: 5 Location: Israel

Hi all,
if you're searching for a tool which will wrap an installation of software you may check inno setup , it's free and quite good, though, only for windows...

As for SCM tool , AVS allows you to do task based source managment stongly tight with chnage request managment - i couldn't find another free tool which give you both.
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y · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

hallo guys,

thank you for your reply. Actually i am just talking about the code deploy. I am NOT searching for tool to automatically install the software to an operating system(for examply windows). What i mean is the building/deploying of war/ear file from avs to a test and production tomcat server. i am not sure if avs is able to deploy the release after intergrator created it automatically to the test and production server.

Best Regards,
Y

spampete · Site Admin Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 89

This kind of test deployement is very specific, it cannot be AVS's native resonsibility.

But, AVS can do so if you provide a batch script, for example, that will be launched on task check-in or a change request reaching a final state. Those scripts can also be launched every day, at a chosen time.

Deploying on a local web server is just a matter of copying a war file in the webapps folder, so writing a script that does this should not be too difficult. The only thing is that you will need your script to be responsible for the whole automated build, so the war can be found up to date. This can be done through the light command line bundled. Have a look to the user guide, you will find explanations on how to do this.

By the way, an enhanced command line is under development, which will allow much more actions, and will be much easier to use!

Does this answer your question?

y · Joined: 27 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

That's exactly what i am looking for.
Thank you for the short introduction to command line bundled

best regard,
y