[Opensource] Using Expresso with Tomcat, MySQL, Eclipse and Ant

[Binil Thomas]

Hi all,
I am new to Expresso Framework, and am trying to build a webapplication 
with it. I have this basic question - I have searched the archives and 
couldn't find an answer.

I use Expresso with Tomcat and MySQL and I have build my own Schema, 
DBObjects, JSPs etc. My question is - what are the suggested "best 
practices" for using Expresso with Tomcat, MySQL, Eclipse/XEmacs and Ant? 
Can someone point me to some URL that discusses this? Or any insight from 
people who have been using this combo?

Right now, whenever I make changes to my DBObject or Schema I unregister 
the Schema in the Web UI, shutdown Tomcat, drop my DB, create a new 
DB, restart Tomcat, register my Schema, and run setup. Sure, I am behaving 
paranoid here but "better safe that be sorry" is my policy :-). I can 
write Ant targets for all of these except the register/unregister Schema 
part - so, is there any known Ant tasks/targets that do this?

Or can someone outline a more efficient development methodology?

TIA,
Binil

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