[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Restman To Deploy A War File W/out Changing...

[Tim Kuehn]

I'm working on automating taking a project, creating a customized WAR file, and then deploying it to a dev / qa / uat / production server. I've got code which copies the project to a temp area, makes the appropriate changes to files like runtime.props, uses restgen to create the WAR file, and then calls restman to do the deployment. It turns out that restman et al replaces the WAR file's runtime.props with a default version of its own which then requires manual intervention to configure properly. I want the capability to deploy the WAR file as-is or with only certain properties (like if the service is enabled) set to a default value.

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