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Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alex SF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. April 2008 03:17 > An: user@ant.apache.org > Betreff: CTL: New Ant-friendly deployment and administration tool > > > Hi All, > > I've noticed a steady amount of questions on the list that > are about using > Ant "beyond the build" for tasks like application deployment > or systems > administration. It seems that many of questions are around > the trickiness of > dispatching commands to various remote machines (essentially > doing what is > just as painful to do with shell scripts), as well as a lack > of support from > a domain-specific framework. > > I'm an old hand at using Ant for build automation, but I > often would run > into issues when I wanted to use those Ant skills to deploy > the builds or > perform prerequisite systems administration steps. These > recurring hurdles > motivated me to build a tool to help fill the gaps. > > The last few months I've been developing a new Sourceforge > project called > ctl-dispatch (CTL for short). CTL's goal is to provide a toolset and > framework that's geared to automating application deployment tasks and > provide an infrastructure where you can define and execute > deployment and > operation recipes. > > (CTL project home page: http://ctl.controltier.org ) > (Sourceforge project home page: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctl-dispatch/) > > The basic CTL concept is that it provides a "Control Dispatcher" that > handles the network dispatching for you so you can focus on the actual > task-specific steps of your deployment process. CTL comes > with pre-built > cross-platform utilities so you don't have to script actions like file > distribution or process and port checking. You can also write your own > custom recipes (called modules) and share them with others in your > organization. Custom modules are defined in XML file and > your procedures > can be specified in Ant or an alternative scripting language > (eg, groovy, > jruby, Perl, Python, *nix shell, Windows batch, etc). > > CTL documents a growing list cookbook examples that show you > how to solve a > number of common problems like file distribution, process management, > parallel execution of management tasks, and error handling. I'll be > continually expand the cookbook as the project evolves. > > (CTL cookbook: http://ctl.controltier.org/ant/cookbook/index.html ) > > With CTL, Ant is a first class citizen all the way. First, > Ant is one of the > core components on which CTL is built. Secondly, you can call > CTL and CTL's > utilities directly from your existing Ant build files or, if > you want, you > can create your own custom CTL modules by dropping your Ant > code directly > into a CTL module definition file. > > (See for CTL-For-Ant users: > http://ctl.controltier.com/ant/index.html ) > > CTL is licensed under the The Apache License 2.0 and is > currently being used > by the consulting side of my company, ControlTier, in a > number of our client > projects. > > It's a new project but we've taken it on the road and have > started getting > lots of great feedback we've already started incorporating > into the snapshot > releases. I'd love to hear feedback or suggestions from the > Ant community. > > And if you're going to JavaOne stop by and say hello. I'll be > hanging out at > the ControlTier booth. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/CTL%3A-New-Ant-friendly-deployment-and-a dministration-tool-tp16951542p16951542.html > Sent from the Ant - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
