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

Sorry David. I seems to have missed some big fun, again. :) Howard On 04/12/2011 10:53 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote: > 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. :-) > _______________________________________________ jboss-as7-dev mailing list jboss-as7-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev