After spending a day on figuring out why my jboss-minimal-tests are not working as they should I also stumbled upon a question what happens if metadata changes? I remember I had previous discussion about this with Scott. I even found TODO (which is probably my) in - http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/trunk/system/src/main/org/jboss/sy... But I can see I never given it enough of thought, since I only yesterday saw that we're missing all this functionality in deployers. Why 'missing all this functionality in deployers'? Since in order for a client to know if the metadata has been changed, it needs to know where metadata resides, but that's is server side (structure) detail. So this is what I came up with. Few pseudo code lines. The entry point to all should of course be - as for all other deployment things - DeployerClient: | // deleted, modified, nothing | ModifcationType getModificationType(); | First we need to know if client slide Deployment still exists: | boolean exists(); | which for VFSDeployment it would check if the root still exists. Then we need to get server side representation of deployment - DeploymentContext. And recursively check it is was modified. | if (deploymentContext.isModified()) | return true; | | List<DeploymentContext> chidren = deploymentContext.getChildre(); | for (DeploymentContext child : children) | return checkModified(child); | Probably in case of VFSDeploymentContext we will check the root and metadata locations. So at the end, impl in MainDeployerImpl would look like | ModificationType getModificationType(Deployment deployment) | { | if (deployment.exists() == false) | return DELETED; | | DeploymentContext context = getContext(deployment); | if (context.isModified()) | return MODIFIED; | else | return NONE; | } | (OK, bunch of assert checks missing, but we get the picture :-)) So ProfileImpl would then simply call this method to see which deployment need to be handled. Sounds OK? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4156291#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...