[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment -- why marker files?
Howard Gao
hgao at redhat.com
Tue Apr 12 10:51:05 EDT 2011
Hi,
In AS7 it uses a bunch of 'Marker files' to control and indicate a
deployment. Comparing to previous AS 4 I found this is not so
convenient. For example if I want to deploy an EJB jar I need to drop it
to the /deployments dir and create a .dodeploy marker file. And if my
EJB failed to deploy the marker file changed to .fail mark file. In a
debug process this deployment can be repeated many times, each time a
.dodeploy has to be manually added. And that's for a single EJB. If I
have 5 EJB jars deployed I need file marker files manually created.
In AS 4 I just drop it and done. I wonder what's the good reason for
those marker files? From a user's point of view, for what other purposes
could it be to drop something to the deployments directory than for
deploying it right away?
Thanks
Howard
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