[jboss-as7-dev] Deployment Diagnostics

[Stephen Coy]

Hi there,

Has anyone given much thought to providing more diagnostics when things go wrong during deployment.

For example, I recently encountered a problem with an EAR deployment that failed silently.

A thread dump revealed that it was stuck at the wait in org.jboss.as.ee.component.BasicComponent.waitForComponentStart().

I eventually figured out that there was a problem in my jboss-ejb3.xml file, but there were no clues to go on at all.

Another potential issue with this particular problem is that it's not possible to perform a regular server shutdown once it's in the state above. A "kill -9" is required.

I have a sample project that demonstrates this BTW.


Cheers,

Steve Coy