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. :-)
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