How does JBoss determine what is an application?

[western541]

The IDE I'm using puts all the WARs in the same 'deploy' directory, so that when I start the JBoss server, it starts all the applications.
So that I don't have to go thru the undeploy/redeploy process each time,
is there some file(s) I can rename in the WAR (its an exploded, not packaged) war, or the war itself, so that I can cause certain applications to not be started by renaming the files? I tried renameing the myApp.war file to myApp.warx, but that didn't work.

[darranl]

The deployment scanner ignores the following file names / extensions by default: -

"#*", "%*", ",*", ".*", "_$*", "*#", "*$", "*%", "*.BAK",
"*.old", "*.orig", "*.rej", "*.bak", "*,v", "*~", ".make.state",
".nse_depinfo", "CVS", "CVS.admin", "RCS", "RCSLOG", "SCCS",
"TAGS", "core", "tags"

[western541]

Thank you. That's extremely helpful. Can you point me to documentation that describes how the Deployer works in determining which files to deploy, etc., which to skip, and what it does which each file it deems 'deployable'.

[darranl]

There is some information on the deployers in the application server guide: -

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossas/jboss4guide/r3/html/

It is the deployment scanner that decides what to deploy, some info on that can be found at: -

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=DeploymentScanner

The configurtion of the scanner is in ${jboss.home}/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml

[western541]

Thanks for the information! Exactly what I needed.