Example

Say, for instance, there is a project my-product site on your server

http://mycorp.com

The product is deployed with Maven to

/home/x/public_html/com.mycorp.products/my-product/2.0

and therefore accessible with

http://mycorp.com/com.mycorp.products/my-product/2.0

on the web.

Let’s further assume that the project already has releases with Versions 1.0 and 1.1.

The softlink-tool will create softlinks on your server so that the project’s sites are accessible with the following links.

• http://mycorp.com/my-product – the latest version
• http://mycorp.com/my-product/1.0
• http://mycorp.com/my-product/1.1
• http://mycorp.com/my-product/2.0
• http://mycorp.com/my-product/com.mycorp.products/my-product/LATEST – the latest version
• http://mycorp.com/my-product/com.mycorp.products/my-product/SNAPSHOT – the latest SNAPSHOT version

The softlink tool can be used as a command line tool to create the links as well as monitor folders to set links after a release accordingly.

Project Blog Articles

The following posts provide more information about this tool:

• Versioned Sites
• Automatic for the Team
• softlink-tool 0.5.2 released!
• Project home page URL with version
• Creating Product Links on the Server

Resources