IBM Worklight 6.1.0.1 - worklightserverhost attribute and app-builder

Question

How is the worklightserverhost attribute on the app-builder task used? This is important as when deploying an tested application into a production environment, you normally wouldn't do a new build (as this could introduce regression problems). However, the fact that this is a mandatory property and contains in this scenario the test server URL and context - does it force you then to do a new build for the production environment?

Answer 1

Yes, a re-build for each environment does seem to be the usual approach. While we might prefer a "build once, promote through the stages" pattern, I think by careful use of tagging in your source repository you can get pretty good defence against regression.

Alternatively, I think with care you could set up your network so that the app is built once directing to, say,

myco.mobile.hostv21

you could then have that resolve to the different stages as appropriate.