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

http://community.jboss.org/message/598635#598635 On 12/04/2011 17:58, Howard Gao wrote: > 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