HOw to run JBOSS in developement mode

[sandeeptarade]

Hi,
I am using the JBOSS as application server. Using ant script I create the war file which gets automatically replaced in deploy folder when I fire a build.
But even for the minute change in html I need to fire a build. Only after the build and server restart I can see the changes. I want that these changes should support hot deployment so that as as soon as there is a change I can see it without rebuilding and redeployment.Is there any way that JBOSS support this hot deployment for at least HTML files? Is there a development mode for JBOSS?

Thanks,
Sandeep

[wolfgangknauf]

Replacing a WAR file in the deploy directory performs an automatic restart of the application.
Does your build script change the timestamp of the WAR file? What happens if you copy the WAR through windows exlorer or whatever you use?

Best regards

Wolfgang

[erasmomarciano]

If you modify this those file .jsp .html you not need to restart your web-app.
Else if you modify those file .class or jar, you need restart your web-app

[peterj]

Try using a exploded deployment, then you can add/replace JSP, HTML, CSS and other static files and have the hot deployed (without having the application being redeployed).

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/ExplodedDeployment

By the way, In my ant scripts, I always create a directory withe the war contents first, and then use the jar task to create the war from that directory. Then I have two different deployment targets, one which copies over the war file, the other which copies over the war directory.