asked on 1/23/2009

Can I update .jsps in Jboss without .ear/.war/.tar?

We're migrating some apps from ATG to Jboss. With ATG, we had the deployment process configured to pick up individual .jsp (.jhtml in ATG) file updates and display them with little or no cacheing - and no bouncing of the server. So we were able to very easily update the .jsps.

The Source Control folks are now saying that all .jsp updates to content in the new Jboss servers need to be in the form of .ear/.war/.tar files. If it's not necessary and we can send individual files like we do now for ATG, I think it's unnecessary overhead and adds an unnecessary layer of abstraction.

The .jsp updates are going to be of the 'creative' type, changing static content rather than Java.

The question is, again: can we configure Jboss to pick up individual .jsp updates without packaging them up beforehand?

Many thanks!

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wbox

2/2/2009

ramazanyich

1/27/2009

I think you can try to use unpacked deployment feature of jboss.
For example you have a web application packaged as myapp.war.
Then in $JBOSS_HOME/server/default/deploy folder create new folder with name myapp.war and unpack contents of myapp.war into this created folder (keep in mind that directory structure which was inside war file should be kept)
after that you should be able jsut change some jsp pages I suppose without complete redeployment

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ramazanyich

1/29/2009

if you want that your application will start after all other deployed applications then you can do following:
in deploy directory create deploy.last folder and put your exploded war directory to created deploy.last directory

wbox

2/2/2009

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Sounds like it may work. Thanks all