Java and CVS

[jrthor2]

I am starting a project where we have a web application that we want to run cvs commands to update our production servers. The web application will be a java web page (j2ee). We run on linux servers, and what would happen when the button on the web page would be this:

* do a cvs update of a local repository to get the latest code from cvs
* do an rsync to see what files have changed in multiple projects
* copy only the files that have changed to their respective directories on our application server
* run another script that copies the files from our application server to our content servers (this script is already written)

Can anyone tell me how I would start coding this in Java? I've never run linux (cvs) commands from Java before (I'm kind of new).

Thanks!

 

[Diancecht]

Well, you can execute OS commands, but another optios is using a Java CVS library like this so your application will be truly J2EE and not bounded to a Linux application server.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[Ascalonian]

I would recommend checking out two websites..

One is jCVS

and the other (which I recommend trying first) is Java CVS which is an API right through Netbeans.

 

[jrthor2]

I'm not using NetBeans.

 

[oopswithjava]

what is the use of inheritance

 

[TonHu]

Waht you are trying to do looks a lot like Continuous Integration, which is handled nicely with Continuum, to be found here:

http://continuum.apache.org/

HTH
TonHu