I understand the point- not enough reliable for the production; however it can be a cool option for a quick demo of the clustering capabilities like @Paul pointed out. Will keep one copy on my USB drive ;-)
regards
FM 

2011/8/18 Paul Ferraro <paul.ferraro@redhat.com>
Just to say, this does actually work (e.g. this is actually how I
deployed my sample app to multiple local standalone servers in the AS7
clustering webinar) - though as Brian points out, the fact that 2
different scanners are acting on the same marker files can make this
unreliable.

On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 16:07 -0500, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> I think the marker files would mess that up; i.e. the scanner for one
> server would put down a marker file and the presence of that file would
> negatively impact the behavior of the scanner on another server.
>
> On 8/17/11 3:27 PM, Francesco Marchioni wrote:
> > Hi Brian,
> > thanks for your reply. Maybe one could "emulate" farming by running
> > multiple standalone server on the same AS distribution
> >
> > http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jboss-as7-dev/2011-August/003502.html
> >
> > Each server would use its own data dir, but the deployments dir is
> > shared between server instances.....
> > regards
> > F.M.
> > 2011/8/17 Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry@redhat.com
> > <mailto:brian.stansberry@redhat.com>>
> >
> >     No, there won't be a replacement for farming for clustered standalone
> >     servers. The distributed deployment option AS 7 provides is via running
> >     a managed domain.
> >
> >     On 8/8/11 8:28 AM, Francesco Marchioni wrote:
> >      > Dear devs,
> >      > will there be any farming service in AS 7 ? I've been testing a
> >      > standalone cluster but I couldn't get the deployment propagated
> >     on other
> >      > cluster members ( just copied the deployment unit on all cluster
> >      > members). Haven't tested with a domain though.
> >      > Thanks a lot in advance
> >      > Francesco
> >      >
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