FYI
conversation between Scott and I, if I don't have time to work on this this
week I will commit the work as is, which compiles and runs fairly well but
hasn't been fully tested and exposes a few bugs still.
I
trust that if I drop the JBossDeployer in your lap you guys will whip in shape
in 32 seconds flat
The
features are
full
integration of deployer architecture, Main deployer talking to
sub-*ar*-specific deployers,
full
support for run-time pluggability of deployers as services. Unlimited number
of deployers supported
support for hot adding directories to the watched directories at
runtime
full
integration of classloader generation so as to have the same class visibility
integration across EVERYTHING, not just the services stack but also the war
the ejb and just *everything* so your services classes will dynamically see
your ear classes
support for packaged and unpacked mode (directory)
support for bare-xml files and structures, no classes just metadata,
put classes on web
"drop anything" support in deploy, directories, sar, jar/rar/ear/war/
classes, xml snippets, anything
support for arbitrary sub packaging, want to do an EJB that deploys a
service which contains an EJB and a SAR, plus a directory and a couple of
classes that talk to a ear inside the packaging? knock yourself out, we take
care of classloaders.
support for hot redeploy of *anything*, just like we did applications
hot deploy without compilation, the new JBoss Deployer support hot deploy and
redeploy of server modules, rars, sars, classes, jar war
anything
simplified
codebase, really really simple, really
so I
will try to commit soon
