jboss startup - serialize ejb deployment

[jokr]

hey,

i'm trying to reduce the startup time of the jboss (4.x) for a huge ejb application. i was wondering if its possible to serialize the 'work' of the ejbdeployer. in a second startup these serialized data would be read in.

maybe someone did things like that before, giving me a hint if its worth a try?

thanks in ad,
jochen

[slaboure]

have you tried to use unpacked deployments? (i.e. instead of putting a .xAR file in deploy, you unzip it and put a .xAR DIRECTORY in deploy). Can you try and give us some figures?

cheers,

sacha

[clebert.suconic]

If you want to, you might use an ant macrodef like that:

 <macrodef name="unzip-rename">
 <attribute name="zip-file"/>
 <sequential>
 <echo message="file = @{zip-file}"></echo>
 <move file="@{zip-file}" tofile="@{zip-file}.original"> </move>
 <mkdir dir="@{zip-file}"/>
 <unzip dest="@{zip-file}" src="@{zip-file}.original"></unzip>
 <delete file="@{zip-file}.original"></delete>
 </sequential>
 </macrodef>

<unzip-rename zip-file="/yourserver/deploy/app.ear"/>
<unzip-rename zip-file="/yourserver/deploy/app.ear/app.war"/>