Deploy static content in WAR without restart or hotdeploy

[derrickhackman]

I have the need to deploy site static content to our JBoss farm and do not want to restart the app server or be using hot deploy (due to JVM housecleaning issues .. we are on 1.5). I really do not want to deploy an exploded WAR file as this puts some pain on the opts team. I cannot think of a way for JBoss to pick up the static content from a single WAR file without doing a restart or without using hot deploy.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[peterj]

I would suggest that you use an external static content directory http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/ExternalDirectories, but because you cannot do exploded deployment, that probably will not work for you either.

Looks like what you are asking for is a way to add or modify the content of a WAR file without changing the timestamp on the WAR file or without the WAR file being redeployed. Hmm, maybe you could turn off the hot deployer. But then you would have to either manually deploy new apps or restart JBossAS to deploy them. But that would prevent the WAR from being redeployed when you update it.

[derrickhackman]

Peter, thanks for the feedback... seems like I am a little backed into a wall on this one and the only option is to deploy the exploded war file.

Thanks again.
-derrick