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

[Howard Gao]

I think managing those mark files with deployment through a tool is the 
right way. If I had such a tool, I don't even care to look into 
/deployments directory for any mark files.

Howard


On 04/13/2011 06:57 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> 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.
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> 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
> http://about.me/maxandersen
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