[jboss-as7-dev] Intended deployemnt behavior?

[Jason T. Greene]

To clarify, I mean treating them differently. If we know it's a symlink 
we can treat the symlink like a marker.

On 7/11/11 10:15 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Into the deployments/ directory, we scribble a simple text file, which
>> is basically a poor-man's symlink, plus other information used by
>> TorqueBox.
>>
>> But generally, it contains a path-to-the-exploded-app.
>>
>> A deployer picks it up, and adjusts the DEPLOYMENT_ROOT (or whatnot)
>> to point to the actual exploded application elsewhere on disk.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -Bob
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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