EJB hot incremental deployment

[asookazian]

what is the status regarding adding this functionality to Seam? It is not currently available in Seam 2.0.0.GA and would be VERY useful to have (the xhtml hot deploy is great!). Is there a JIRA issue for this?

Is it going to be targeted for release and coincide with EJB 3.1 release which apparently is going to remove local interface for session beans?

Any possibility to add hot incremental deployment for JPA entities as well?

If JBoss Seam dev team could get full incremental hot deployment released in a new version of Seam that supports facelets, java beans, session beans, JPA entities without affecting a current conversation that would be fantastic.

Is that possible?

Also, according to the Seam in Action book, when you hot incremental deploy a POJO with Seam, "the best part is that the application experiences minimal disruption. Your HTTP session
remains intact and therefore you should be able to continue testing the interface without starting over from the
beginning." -- pg. 61 MEAP eBook

Does this also mean that the current conversation is not affected as well?

thx.

[norman.richards]

The conversation should still exist, but I don't think instances in the conversation can be updated with the new component definitions. So, if you are updating the classes, you should generally consider the conversation to be dead.

BTW, Seam in Action is slightly misleading about the HTTP Session going away on redeploy. In JBoss, when you turn on HTTP session replication (even for non-clustered applications) then your session can be maintained between redeployments. When your app is redeployed, the session data is reloaded from the cache and you can keep going with the new code.

[supernovasoftware.com]

Where is this configured?

[asookazian]

perhaps in default\conf\jboss-service.xml??

<!-- ==================================================================== -->
 <!-- Deployment Scanning -->
 <!-- ==================================================================== -->

 <!-- An mbean for hot deployment/undeployment of archives.
 -->
 <mbean code="org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner"
 name="jboss.deployment:type=DeploymentScanner,flavor=URL">

 <!-- Uncomment (and comment/remove version below) to enable usage of the
 DeploymentCache
 <depends optional-attribute-name="Deployer">jboss.deployment:type=DeploymentCache</depends>
 -->
 <depends optional-attribute-name="Deployer">jboss.system:service=MainDeployer</depends>

[norman.richards]

If you are referring to what I wrote, you need to add the clustering service and mark the app as distributable. Here's something I wrote on the topic a few years ago. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed.

http://members.capmac.org/~orb/blog.cgi/tech/java/Redeploy_web_apps_w.html

[pmuir]

"asookazian" wrote:
what is the status regarding adding this functionality to Seam? It is not currently available in Seam 2.0.0.GA and would be VERY useful to have (the xhtml hot deploy is great!). Is there a JIRA issue for this?

I spoke to Andy from EJB3 team about this a few days ago, he was going to try to get it scheduled. Track the issue http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/EJBTHREE-1096

Is it going to be targeted for release and coincide with EJB 3.1 release which apparently is going to remove local interface for session beans?

Unlikely, this is implementation detail, not spec related. Also EJB3.1 is still a while away.

Any possibility to add hot incremental deployment for JPA entities as well?

Not AFAIK. You would need to ask Emmanuel or Steve on the Hibernate forum (again this is an implementation detail, not specified).

If JBoss Seam dev team could get full incremental hot deployment released in a new version of Seam that supports facelets, java beans, session beans, JPA entities without affecting a current conversation that would be fantastic.

We've done what we can, the rest has to be done by the respective projects .