[jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss jBPM] - Re: process deployment from WAR file

[kukeltje]

"tom.baeyens at jboss.com" wrote : i'll rephrase to see if i get you correctly:
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  | You want to make a process archive a part of the deployment structure (=available to the classloader or in a deployment directory).
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Yes

"tom.baeyens at jboss.com" wrote : Then, you want to discover all the deployed process archives on the deployment directory and deploy them to the jbpm db.
No, I was thinking to have a servlet configured in this specific war (the code of the servlet is in the generic jbpm.jar if that works, or a small jbpm-deploy.jar in the WEB-INF/lib). This startup servlet gets the pd from the WEB-INF and deploys it to the db. But if what you propose can be done in a generic (App server independent) way, I'm all for it.

"tom.baeyens at jboss.com" wrote : The hashing of process archives is the solution you propose for making the distinction between processes that are already deployed and processes that need to be (re)deployed.  This to overcome the difference in lifecycle of a deployed process versus the java/webapp deployment lifecycle.
Correct

"tom.baeyens at jboss.com" wrote : right?
Most of it (or all if the second question goes in your favour) 

"tom.baeyens at jboss.com" wrote : in the recent drools discussions, i realized that there are many ways to go from sources to deployments and developers are used to the different java deployment strategies.  In more general terms: I'm still looking at how we can create a unified deployment model that would provide a similar picture to java, servlet, process, rules and other deployments.
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  | It seems that we're now trying to embed our deployment model in the known existing deployment models, rather then to try and unify all of them.


Correct, if rules come into play that is another level, and what to think of services on the ESB?

Configuration management only gets more and more difficult. Where is the good old one ear deployment. 20MB, everything in it. :-)))

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