[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment -- why marker files?

[Dimitris Andreadis]

There is so standard 'touch' on windows. You have to use tricks from the command line like: 
COPY /B myfile+,,

Normal windows users would probably right-click to create a new text file and then click to 
manually rename it. Or open in an editor an existing one and save it in order to achieve the 
'touch' effect.

It's a bit of a pain for them.

On 12/04/2011 19:41, Jim Tyrrell wrote:
>> If you have some ideas how we can make it more clear thats great. One thing I realize is that Windows folks have no idea what touch is so I know we need to improve it at least there.
>
> Does touch even exist on windows?  Been a long time since I used it.