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

Jason Greene wrote: > 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.