[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss AS7 Development] - Re: Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment

[Max Andersen]

Max Andersen [http://community.jboss.org/people/max.andersen%40jboss.com] created the discussion

"Re: Thoughts on filesystem action driven hot deployment"

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> Jason Greene wrote:
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> > > Max Andersen wrote:
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> > > There will be flag in server configuration (TBD where exactly) to
> > > enable old style scanning for/reaction on descriptors, but will not be
> > > enabled by default. This will allow existing tooling for pre-AS7 to work sensibly. 
> > This makes absolutely no sense to me. Existing tools will have to be updated anyway to deal with a different directory structure, different configuration files, and likely different jboss deployment descriptors. 
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> Tools does not need to know about different structure, configuration nor deployment descriptors to deploy.
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> They just need to know about the destination directory - nothing else.
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> > Assuming this wasn't an issue it's still off by default, so what's the point
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> The option were off by default to provide the safer "API" by default and option existed to let existing tools work with AS7...(those that works/worked with AS 3,4,5 & 6.
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> > > *foo.war.donotdeploy* - Marker for server to ignore foo.war (used to ensure partial deployments does not happen while copying)
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> > If we need this, we are better off just requiring  a .deploy marker. It's the same number of steps, and is slightly more intuitive. Note that we can actually detect partially copied zips.
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> you mean if the file is not properly zipped ? will you keep doing that on every rescan until it becomes complete ?
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> can you detect these partial copied zips without locking the file ? 
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> the flag were there to have good balance between implicit and explicit control.
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