RAR (Hot)Deployment

[andre.anneck]

Hi there,

I have been trying to get hot undeploy/deploy of a RAR running. First attempts to simply delete the .rar and wait for the deploy-thread failed. Sending deploy/undeploy commands over the http//localhost:8082 JMX interface are failing too. Well they are triggerd and executed but new classes inside the .rar are not recognized.

The Problem seems to be that the deployer always takes the same *.class files out of the .jar file inside the .rar archive. If I change settings inside ra.xml (inside the .rar), the new settings are loaded correctly after undeploy/deploy. But the compiled classes are not refreshed.

My .rar archive is organised like this:

foo.rar:
/META-INF
/META-INF/MANIFES.MF
/META-INF/ra.xml
/foo-lib.jar

Interesting is that after undeploy/deploy action new values inside ra.xml are correctly parsed and used. But no matter what I change inside foo-lib.jar, the changes are not applied.

Any pointers?

Take care,

Andre

P.S.: I hope this is the right forum if not please give advice where to post.

[davidjencks]

Tell us the version. Redeploy of rar classes is not supported in 2.4.4, this is so your app can get the the rar classes. In 3.0, I think all versions, the classes should update. Wait for the next binary release, it should be way better than the predecessors.

[andre.anneck]

Yupp, using version 2.4.4 :(. I knew that it had to be something obvious. *doh*

Next binary release... of 3.x or will 2.5 support .rar re-dployment?

- Andre

[davidjencks]

2.x series will not support binary redeployment of rars. The 3 rc1 is now out, and it does.