David Lloyd wrote:
None of us (who have actually done the work of researching a way to making filesystem deployment actually work with the domain management model) are going to change this from how it is right now. If you want to change it and you have a better idea, please implement it and submit the patch and it will be considered. Yeah the old mechanism was "simpler and less correct", which is somehow being touted as a virtue (?!), however it is also completely and irretrievably incompatible with the new domain management architecture. End of story.
Yes, it's a virtue!!!! The out-of-box experience is the #1 thing you have to get right. At first a developer wants to try out AS7 and get a WAR running without having to learn new concepts. ("WTF is a dodeploy file and how would I know that I need one??")
This is a basic usability problem that has already been solved and we're taking a step backwards.
So just make the old deployment mechanism only available on standalone. That's the main place you need it.
Stan