hey all,
I ask a long time ago on the jboss as forum (or maybe stackoverflow, I don't recall now) about if you had a spring-based application such as alfresco (and many others, not just alfresco) where:
1) the application usually has a .war binary deploy.
2) the configs are usually located in a tomcat_home/shared/ location (usually under /shared/classes/myconfig.properties for example).
This allowed the application .war binary to be updated/replaced regularly without loosing your current configurations stored in the /shared/ location.
However, I never found out how to deploy these kinds of applications to jboss with the same level of agility - binary war's get updated regularly, while configs are still elsewhere in the equivalent of tomcat_home/shared/. This would avoid the need of requiring exploded war deployments that would require re-applying of configs after .war updates.
Could someone enlighten me please :-)
-D