web apps in development

[hansgill]

I know that to deploy a webapp in jboss we have to create the .war file, but what if i just want to work on the webapp and see the results before i create the war file. I dont wanna have to create the war file everytime i update some file. Is there a way to just have jboss recognize a directory from which to server the webapps????

[sgturner]

sure. instead of putting foo.war into the deploy directory, make a directory in deploy called foo.war, and so on. but I really reccommend to make an ant build file that will do compiling, making of war, deploying of war all in one go.