On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Erin Mulder wrote:
> I'm in favor of that too (both exploded deployments and pointers)
>
> A lot of the commercial servers let you keep your components anywhere
> on the local filesystem -- you just give it a filepath when you first deploy
> and then update the files in place to hot deploy. I've used that a lot in
> development and it's pretty convenient. Being able to also pull in EJBs
> from a separate framework project would be very interesting.
>
> Another thread talked about needing more than the "drop-in" deployment.
> I think this pointer route should definitely be explored.
Well, UNIX has symlinks... If we respected shortcuts in Windows,
would that be good enough?
Aaron
