[jboss-as7-dev] Intended deployemnt behavior?

[Jason T. Greene]

It would be really cool if we could just follow OS symlinks for that. 
IIRC Java 7 has support for that.

On 7/11/11 10:11 AM, Bob McWhirter wrote:
> Jim and I were discussing exploded deployments in #torquebox, and realized...
>
> TorqueBox pretty much only uses exploded deployments, but we do it slightly differently, and avoid copying tons of files around and dealing with partial-copies and non-atomic things.
>
> Our exploded apps live wherever the user wants them to live.  Anywhere on disk.
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> Into the deployments/ directory, we scribble a simple text file, which is basically a poor-man's symlink, plus other information used by TorqueBox.
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> But generally, it contains a path-to-the-exploded-app.
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> A deployer picks it up, and adjusts the DEPLOYMENT_ROOT (or whatnot) to point to the actual exploded application elsewhere on disk.
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>  From the AS perspective, we're deploy 1 small text file, at least initially.  But then it magically becomes an exploded directory full of loose files.
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> Dunno if it'd help, but generally supporting a deployments/myapp.link deployment, where the myapp.link file is just a text file containing only and exactly the path to an exploded application, might be useful.
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> 	-Bob
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>
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> On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>
>> On 7/11/11 9:41 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> Brian,
>>>
>>>> This is merged (thanks!) along with a fix such that deleting the
>>>> deployment content triggers undeploy[1].
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1240
>>>
>>> For clarification - does this "undeploy on deleted content" only apply to zipped archives
>>> or will it also happen for exploded ?
>>>
>>> And I assume deleting the .deploy will work in any case?
>>>
>>
>> It only applies to things which have auto-deploy turned on. So not by
>> default for exploded. Although you could turn it on and get russian
>> roulette deployment. The biggest problem being that frameworks are
>> surprised when their content disappears before being shutdown. This isnt
>> an issue for archives because we make a copy.
>>
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