Best practices for CF app deployment?

Hello, fellow CF users.

Do any of you have procedures you follow to deploy your CF apps?  Our Software Quality person is really eager for us to provide a very simple build procedure ... for example, a "make .car file starting with source control" procedure.

Has anyone thought through this problem and created a nice makefile or build.xml to do this?  (Is there something obvious in the documentation that I'm missing?)

We use subversion, Linux, cfmx7 behind Apache, migrating to cf9 when it's ready.

Thanks in advance!