Hello Max, Changes today: If WAR is referenced by EAR, I touch %ear content%/META-INF/application.xml, otherwise I touch % war content%/WEB-INF/web.xml. Content dir is obtained by using wst model. Best regards, Slava

Yes, for WAR and EJB projects, I look up for EAR projects using them. Slava ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Rydahl Andersen" <max.andersen(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Viacheslav Kabanovich" <scabanovich(a)exadel.com&gt; Cc: <jbosstools-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [jbosstools-dev] [Fwd: [jbosstools-commits] JBoss Tools SVN: r3756- trunk/jst/plugins/org.jboss.tools.jst.web.ui/src/org/jboss/tools/jst/web/ui/ action/server.] content%/META-INF/application.xml, > > otherwise I touch % war content%/WEB-INF/web.xml. > > > > Content dir is obtained by using wst model. > > > > Ok, so the answers to my original questions is: > > >>1) Why is both the manifest.mf and web.xml being touched for ear > >>deployment ? The war is inside the ear so just touching the ear > should >>be enough; doesn't touching both trigger risk a double-restart ? > > Fixed by this: > > If WAR is referenced by EAR, I touch %ear > content%/META-INF/application.xml, > > otherwise I touch % war content%/WEB-INF/web.xml. > > >>2) We should also check that if the war is inside an ear the ear > >>descriptor should be touched; and if not in an ear the war descriptor > >>should be touched. Do we do that already ? > > > >>3) The code scans *all* project files multiple times - that can't be > >>very efficient for large projects. > > >>Since these projects knows where their descriptors are why are we > >>scanning for them ? > > I guess this is fixed now too ;) > > >4) btw. seam-gen uses this for ear's: > > > > <target name="restart" depends="explode" description="Restart the > exploded archive"> > > <touch file="${ear.deploy.dir}/META-INF/application.xml"/> > > </target> > > >Why did you choose manifest.mf for ear ? > > Not relevant anymore it seems ;) > > /max >