[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss AS7 Development] - Re: Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment

David Lloyd wrote: > Jason Greene wrote: > > > jaikiran pai wrote: > > > > > I have no serious objection to telling people where deployments are stored. This is OSS after all. As we go along there should be a wiki page describing exactly how this works for a given release. I'm just doubtful about persisting it in this file. People come to count on reading the file and you can't lightly stop writing it even if it becomes a problem. > > > > > > > I was reading a mail about configuring Java2 security for a web application on AS5 and realized that it might have to play a role here too. Users might have to know the (consistent) location where the deployments will be extracted so that they can setup appropriate permissions. > > A very good point. This should become a separate forum thread, as it affects all deployments (domain deployments) as well. We may need to somehow add this info to the domain. I think that as long as we use a predictable code source URL for deployments it doesn't have to be a specific filesystem location (especially if it varies between expanded and non-expanded deployments).  Maybe in this case, the resource loader should use a VFS URL or even a special deployment URL type (e.g. "deployment:///foo.war").