How to deploy a war?

[meselfe]

When I copy a war to the deploy folder I often get an error that that the zip is corrupt - like 1 out of 4 times with the same war file. Then I have to restart the server.

I have tried to move the file instead of copying to the deploy folder. Then I get another error:

Unable to remove existing file C:\jboss-5.1.0.GA\server\default\deploy\my.war

Failure rate of move is roughly the same as with copy.

The file is 3Mb, deploying on windows 7 64bit, jboss 5.1.0ga running on hotspot jvm 1.6.0_20 32bit.

What is the right way to deploy a war file?

[david.salter]

Does your WAR file always deploy correctly on a clean startup of JBoss?  If so, it sounds like it may be an issue with the deployment scanner attempting to deploy the file before it is fully copied into the deploy directory.

[doe999]

Yes it always deploys correctly on startup.

[david.salter]

The deployment scanner checks for new deployments every 5 seconds.  You could try increasing that time period.  If your problem is because the deployment scanner is deploying a partially copied file, upping the scan period may help.

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ConfiguringTheDeploymentScannerInConfjbossSystemxml