[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss AS7 Development] - Re: Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment
Jason Greene [http://community.jboss.org/people/jason.greene] created the discussion
"Re: Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment"
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The old mechanism had its problems but it cannot be outrightly
dismissed saying it was broken. It's been in use for a decade and it was one of the
key features of JBoss (drag&drop an archive to hotdeploy it, remove to undeploy), a
feature that everybody loved and all our competitors copied. Hundrends of thousands of
users are already familiar with it. Remember also farming, a mechanism that had even more
problems than hotdeployment? We removed it at one point and then we had to add it back
because customers liked it no matter how many problems it had.
Just to address these
two points:
Vendors did not carbon copy this feature due to the problems. None of them support hot
exploded directories the way jboss does. They either out right disallow them, or support
the usage only at startup. They either provide a way for you to drop in a marker to force
redeploy, or provide some kind of tool/api to trigger it.
Farming was resurrected because we had no reasonable alternative.
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