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

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

>> Have you guys talked with Max and the tools team to see what/how this
>> effects what they have to do?
> 
> Yes, I think hes happy with the eventual outcome. Although I will let 
> him comment :)


Jim, if you look at the forum thread you should see my head show up a tons of times ;)

And just to keep it short - I think we found a good balance that solves both sides of the story and the
overall idea is good - especially now that just putting archives in the directory will work as you have always
been used to. There might be some glitches left in the implementation but that is why its called a Beta and
if someone finds issues with it report jira with steps to reproduce.

So if you use archives then stuff just works (even with tools), if exploded then you need an explicit marker but 
that is "easily" done in tools; hardest one is actually Maven but should be easy to implement in Cargo.

JBoss Tools trunk supports the notion of .dodeploy files now btw.

Our biggest challenge is the remote API which is unfortunately much more shaky at this point than the file deployment....so i'm happy
the FS API at least works otherwise we would be rather stuck ;)

/max
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