How to configure JBoss as dev app server

[pugmaster]

I have JBoss 2.44 + Tomcat 4.02 up and running and can view different example ear files. Now, I want to start a development environment so that I don't have to spend time bundling everything into a project.ear file and then copying it to the $JBOSS_HOME/deploy directory.

I also would like to configure Jboss so that it doesn't need to be restarted every time a servlet, Java class library or EJB file is updated. I looked for an appropriate configuration file in $JBOSS_HOME/conf but none of those config files contained any of the names for currently deployed ear file.

thanks for any help
Norman

[adrian.brock]

You can use an unpacked ear.

Simply reproduce the ear as a directory structure
in deploy keeping all the same names. e.g.
your top level directory is myapp.ear

The jsps and servlets will be redeployed, when changed,
by tomcat. To redeploy ejbs, you have to redeploy the
whole app. This can be done by touching application.xml

Regards,
Adrian

[wchao]

Does that work for JBoss 3.0 beta / Tomcat 4.0.2 as well?

[adrian.brock]

No, it's not in JBoss3 yet.

[javabettin]

So, currently with 3.0 there is no way to redeploy even jsp(s) w/o a restart?

When is the same functionality in 2.4.4 going to be implemented in 3.0?

Thanks
Dave

[adrian.brock]

I'm not sure.

I know one of the developers is doing some rework of the
deployment, but he was at JBoss One last week.

Regards,
Adrian

[chenis]

Adrian,

I asked this in another post, and didn't hear anything on it ... when using this approach, it seems to ignore the manifest.mf classpath in the ejbs with regards to utility libraries. The only way I can get around it is to stick the util libraries all in the jboss/lib/ext directory. Do you have a way around this problem ?

Thanks

Ken