[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment -- why marker files?

[David M. Lloyd]

On 04/12/2011 09:51 AM, Howard Gao wrote:
> 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?

As has been said before, the FS deployer in AS7 is a client into the 
deployment system; the old AS4 way cannot work.  There are long and 
meandering threads on this topic on the forums, hopefully we won't 
restart that discussion here. :-)

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- DML