[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss AS 7 Development] - Single Installation Patching

[John Mazzitelli]

John Mazzitelli [https://community.jboss.org/people/mazz] commented on the document

"Single Installation Patching"

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Regarding "Patching Deployments" along with the "Mixed Approach" prototype described in  https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-25627 ExtendingAS7 page. The prototype says to package the deployment (say, an EAR) in an unexploded, zipped format (so you literally would have one file in the module called "mydep.ear" or "myapp.war").

Should it be possible to allow for the Mixed Approach to deploy exploded content (so the module would have a directory structure "mydep.ear/<the content>"). How would this affect this patching mechanism?

I bring this up because of the following use-case : suppose we have legacy code (that used to go in the scanned deployments directory but will now be using the new Mixed Approach method) - and that legacy code reads individual files from within the ear (and could even WRITE files to directories under the ear).

So, the questions are:

1) Can the Mixed Approached deploy exploded content (the prototype's code assumes unexploded, I'm not sure what the code should look like if it wants to deploy exploded deployments)?

2) Does deployment of exploded content via the Mixed Approach present any problems/issues wrt the new patching mechanism?
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