Posted by Vivek Kumar Yadav just before lunchtime: March 25th, 2010
A deployment package arguably is never just a single file to be dropped somewhere and you are done. No! Choosing and bundling your artifacts for deployment is none less complex than figuring out an efficient deployment strategy itself. The Java EE specification suggests EARs as the standard packaging and distribution mechanism but we all know that this is not enough. In reality the ‘deployment package’ comprises a whole list of artifacts and more:
- EARs
- WARs
- database scripts
- static content like images files and icons
- scripts to create queues, topics and data sources
- …
In short, an EAR and a lot around it! But wait, there is still more, what about the plethora of environment specific configurations that also go along?
This leads to a few questions and the reason for this blog.
Posted by Vivek Kumar Yadav around lunchtime: May 28th, 2008
Saturday 17/05/08: Six hours of journey after starting early (very early) in the morning is not that awful when you are looking forward to attend some kind of a “First….”.This adds some extra enthusiasm!! 
We were three, Saket and Rupal being the other two. Apart from participating we were also embodied the task to propagate Xebia’s learnings and experiences as one of the front-runners to imbibe Agile.
A small, but an all charged up audience of some 25 odd people were just enough for that (even smaller) Conference Room at CYP Asia Center hosting the “First” Agile Workshop in Chandigarh. Developers, project managers and even some entrepreneurs formed the lot. Its amazing how Agile is stirring up everyone and was good to see an all inquisitive bunch of people. (more…)