>>Why are auto-deploy folders needed? Depending on the tools you use, >>they are sometimes a convenience in development, but can be simply >>annoying with other choices. For instance, JBoss has a jboss-jmx ant >>task that can be used to call the jboss deployer with a url. You can >>then have a deploy target in your ant script and forget copying your >>app into the hot-deploy directory. I'm not saying one way is always >>better than the other, I've used both.
Besides, In my experience hot deployment gets turned off in any production environment so it's only useful for development/testing. Al
