EAR Redeployment not noticed by JBoss AS

[ckrammer]

Hello,

I am testing a new application, which is packed to an EAR archive by JBoss IDE 1.6.0.

When I deploy this application everything is fine, but when I make some changes and want to redeploy it, the JBoss AS does not notice anything. I have to delete the ear archive and copy it to the deploy directory again.

Any clues why this happens?

Thanks and regards,
Christoph

[andrew.oxenburgh]

Hi Cristophe,

What _exactly_ are you doing?

To deploy an EAR to tomcat you copy it into the '/server/<server-config>/deploy' directory, JBoss picks up the drop, then unpacks it and its components into a '/server/<server-config>/temp/deploy'.

The way to redeploy is to replace the EAR into '/server/<server-config>/deploy'.

JBoss should then see the change, reploy and restart.

Is this what you are doing?

Also _how_ are you doing it? Are you using ant, drag and drop, or are you building it in the /deploy directory, or some other way.

[ckrammer]

Hello,

I do the following:

I copy the .ear folder packed by JBossIDE to /server/default/deploy/projectxy
Then JBoss deploys the application to a tmp folder and the application can be used. Then I do some changes in the code, repack the .ear and copy the files to the same destination, in overwrite mode (using filesystem copy).

But nothing happens.

If I delete the .ear folder from JBoss, the application gets undeployed, after copying it to the same destination again, the new version gets deployed.

Thanks for your help.
Christoph