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

[Howard Gao]

Thanks Dimitris. Oh my, I'm glad this discussion hasn't resulted in a 
much more complicated solution. :)

Howard


On 04/12/2011 11:07 PM, Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> 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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