
Hi Ben,
there are many excellent deployment frameworks out there that will help you do this. The open source solutions are Puppet and Chef. Xebialabs, Nolio/Evolven, BMC Blade Logic, IBM Netcool are among the pack of commercial tools. There are lots more.
How many developers?
Can you provide a little more details on your technology platform?
(Are you using Tomcat, jBoss or another application server)
Have you already tried scripting this? I have been using Ruby for this scripting because the open source deployment frameworks are using Ruby and have been setting the pace in this area.
Bob Aiello
Editor in Chief