war file load order

[smozely]

Hi,

We have and EAR file which contains 4 war files.

We would like one of the WAR files to be top in the AppContext hirearchy for these 4 Wars. But when the ear is deployed the WAR's are just deployed alphabetically. Is there a way to override this in the application.xml for the ear file.
I keep seeing references to load order around the web, but not sure if this is supported in JBoss and not sure of the syntax

[smozely]

After thinking of better search terms, I see this is a hot topic ....

I see one post that talks about using would I be able to do this for the war files? Ie make 3 of the war's depend on the fourth?

Thanks in advance for any reply

[poyge394]

u can use PrefixDeploymentSorter, you put all 4 war files direct under deploy. and put one prefix order.
Sample:

1-a.war
2-b.war
3-c.war
4.d.war

and jboss deploy the archive in that order.
Non-prefixed packages are deployed before prefixed packages

That is not the default behaviour in jboss.
The default deployment-ordering-policy is defined in conf/jboss-service.xml, you most uncomment PrefixDeploymentSorter.

/ Poyan