Avoid extraction of EAR to tmp/deploy

[klauss42]

Hi
by default JBoss extracts an EAR or a WAR that has been deployed as an archive file into the tmp/deploy directory of the JBoss server.

If the EAR is quite large the extraction of the archive takes more time than the whole startup.
And I need to use archive files as I want to use netboot to start my server(s).

Is it somehow possible to avoid this extraction and to let the application run "directly from the archive file"?

Thanks for any hint.

Klaus

[starksm64]

Unpack the ear in the deploy directory and it won't be copied. The more you unpack, the less will be copied.

[klauss42]

I know. But then I cannot start the server via netboot, if I understand correctly.

And the only reason why I have to deploy the EAR as archive files is because I want to use netboot.

Klaus

[starksm64]

The netboot instance would not deploy the ear so there should be no issue with its startup. You can disable the copy by setting the jboss.deploy.localcopy system property to false.