[jboss-as7-dev] Intended deployemnt behavior?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> 
>> 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.
> 
> Other benefits include:
> 
> 1) no complicated marker file extension state machine required.  

I don't see how this solution goes solve that - the underlying problem of resources not being fully there is still present.

> 2) it opens the door for us to deploy things that don't necessarily
> match "^.*\\.[SsWwJjEeRr][Aa][Rr]$", e.g. our torquebox .knob files.

Wouldn't this still require deploy/scanner specific code for you?

btw. not all platforms have symlinks, nor do they work cross devices portably so a .war|sar|ear|blah.link with the path inside would be the best IMO.
 
/max
> 
> Jim
> 
>> 
>> 	-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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