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

On 04/12/2011 09:51 AM, Howard Gao wrote: > Hi, > > In AS7 it uses a bunch of 'Marker files' to control and indicate a > deployment. Comparing to previous AS 4 I found this is not so > convenient. For example if I want to deploy an EJB jar I need to drop it > to the /deployments dir and create a .dodeploy marker file. And if my > EJB failed to deploy the marker file changed to .fail mark file. In a > debug process this deployment can be repeated many times, each time a > .dodeploy has to be manually added. And that's for a single EJB. If I > have 5 EJB jars deployed I need file marker files manually created. > > In AS 4 I just drop it and done. I wonder what's the good reason for > those marker files? From a user's point of view, for what other purposes > could it be to drop something to the deployments directory than for > deploying it right away? As has been said before, the FS deployer in AS7 is a client into the deployment system; the old AS4 way cannot work. There are long and meandering threads on this topic on the forums, hopefully we won't restart that discussion here. :-)