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

[Dimitris Andreadis]

http://community.jboss.org/message/598635#598635

On 12/04/2011 17:58, Howard Gao wrote:
> Sorry David. I seems to have missed some big fun, again. :)
>
> Howard
>
>
> On 04/12/2011 10:53 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> 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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