Description

Goal

Make as easy as possible to do necessary tasks at startup and upgrade.

The idea is to display a special install/upgrade UI when the wiki is brand new or when the backend has been upgraded to do stuff like download and install/upgrade the corresponding product xar, etc.

Informations needed in the war

• generic informations
  • version of the product
  • top id of the product (to display general informations about the product)
  • war id of the product (generate a default id like <product-id>-web when none is provided)
  • ui id of the product (generate a default id like <product-id>-ui when none is provided)

• custom product informations. For example in XE and XEM:
  • commons.version
  • platform.version
  • rendering.version
  • enterprise.version
  • manager.version

Where and how to get theses informations

A product.properties file which will replace the current version.properties made useless.

Introduce a ProductManager or a DistributionManager component and corresponding script service.

How to know that the version of the product war is not in sync with it's corresponding installed xar

Introduce a distribution or product table in the database to store the content of product.properties file to compare it with what's in the war and find that itcr has been changed.