Remote ear Deployment

[chris_white]

Deploying my ear on a local machine is as simple as copying the ear to the /server/default/deploy directory, but is there a way to remote deploy web apps ??

Much in the same way that Tomcat provides a manager page through which an war can be uploaded and deployed on the fly. This remote deployment can also be acheived through ant, but is it possible to remote deploy for JBoss ?? (with ant if possible).

Examples/links would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

[adrian.brock]

http://localhost:8080/jmx-console
MainDeployer
deploy(URL)

[chris_white]

I see that ant has a deploy task called ServerDeploy.

http://ant.apache.org/manual/OptionalTasks/serverdeploy.html

and it appears that for JBoss i would have to use the generic sub-element. providing server username password and classpath, but has anybody ever actually used this that could give me an example ??

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[dannyyates]

If you want to use ant, why not just use the 'copy' task and copy your deployment into the deploy directory? If you want to deploy to a remote machine, either use its UNC name if it's Windows (\\machine\c$\...\server\default\deploy), or else for Unix use rcp, NFS mount, etc.