Dimitris Andreadis [http://community.jboss.org/people/dimitris%40jboss.org] replied to the discussion "Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/560033#560033 -------------------------------------------------------------- I meant it would solve the problem of missing classes/resources during undeployment. In any case, I don't think you should worry too much about the timing related problems of deploying/undeploying exploded deployments. We have this problem for ever and yet very few complaint because they understand the limitations of the mechanism and how to deal with it. So IMO simplicity (copy/delete) wins over correctness since the main use case for altering exploded deployments is development mode. Production mode users know that to be 100% safe they just need to make the directory based deployment changes off-line. Or use a proper API that can offer all sorts of guarantees (e.g. tx behaviour). So offering the appropriate underying API/functionality to support the more advanced scenarios while keeping a simple file-based hot-delployment mechanism that people are familiar with, I think is more important than creating the perfect file-based API abstraction. BTW, in some older AS version we added the ability to tell the scanner to ignore/re-enable a particular deployment, to allow the IDE to make file updates without the fear of the server picking up incomplete deployments. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/560033#560033] Start a new discussion in JBoss AS7 Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]