[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBAS-6590) AS5 is not reliably picking up changes in exploded EAR

AS5 is not reliably picking up changes in exploded EAR ------------------------------------------------------ Key: JBAS-6590 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6590 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Deployers Affects Versions: JBossAS-5.0.1.GA Environment: JBoss AS 5.0.1.GA JDK 1.5 Mac OS X 10.5.6 Reporter: Kenneth Christensen Assignee: Ales Justin Priority: Critical Attachments: ear.jpg, jboss5-test.ear.zip, tmp-ear.jpg I have an explode ear file (directory) - see attached file: ear.jpg When I deploy the exploded ear file to JBoss AS 4.2.3 and later want to update a xhtml file in the exploded ear by my ANT script everything works fine (i.e. I can refresh my browser and see the changes without redeployment of the ear or war): <!-- Target: deploy.xhtml.to.jboss --> <target name="deploy.xhtml.to.jboss" description="Deploy xhtml files to JBoss" if="deployed"> <copy todir="${jboss.deploy.dir}/${jboss.context.path}/${war.file.name}/xhtml"> <fileset dir="${view.dir}/xhtml" includes="**/*"/> </copy> </target> Because the exploded ear file is not copied to JBoss tmp dir. But JBoss AS 5 always makes a copy of my exploded ear file and copies it to the tmp dir where it's the current 'working copy/version' used by JBoss AS - see attached file: tmp-ear.jpg My ANT task will not work anymore because the 'working copy/version' used by JBoss AS now is in the tmp dir and not in the deploy dir. I really don't want to 'touch' web.xml (or other meta files) to trigger a full redeployment when I need to make changes to my web files (xhtml, css, javascript, images etc.). Could we please have the 'old' behaviour from JBoss AS 4.2.X implemented into JBoss AS 5 - or is there a workaround to above problem?