build pipeline

Builds were typically done straight from the developer’s IDE and manually deployed to one of our app servers.
We had a manual process in place, where the developer would do the following steps.
Check all project code into Subversion and tag
Build the application.
Archive the application binary to a network drive
Deploy to production
Update our deployment wiki with the date and version number of the app that was just deployed

when we needed to either rollback to the previous version, or branch from the tag to do a bugfix


http://java.dzone.com/articles/creating-build-pipeline-using