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

[Howard Gao]

Thanks Jason. I think I would use auto-deploy for most of the time.
If by default it is auto-deploy for non-exploded deployment, then I 
think there is an issue with it. I deployed a simple MDB (packed in a 
jar file, I think that's non-exploded) and I still have to add a 
.dodeploy to trigger the processing of my MDB.

Or perhaps it has been just so changed? My as7 is built from the code 
days ago.

Howard


On 04/12/2011 11:10 PM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> Actually allow me to clarify:
>
> BY DEFAULT you do not need markers for non-exploded deployments.
>
> You do need them for exploded. You can enable auto-deploy for 
> directories, and ignore using any marker, but you have the same casino 
> odds that you had in previous AS releases.
>
>
> On 4/12/11 10:04 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> You dont need markers for non-exploded deployments (see auto-deploy in
>> deployments/README.txt)
>>
>> On 4/12/11 9:51 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?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Howard
>>>
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