JBoss remote deployment best practices

[khubla]

I have a .war I want to deploy to a remote JBOSS server.   Ideally, I'd like to do the remote deploy with maven, or I'd like to remotely instruct JBoss to deploy a war from our Sonatype Nexus server.  Are there any best practices for doing this?

[wolfgangknauf]

Hi,

JBoss supports remote deployment, but unfortunately the two ways of  remote deployment I know both don't create "persistent" deployments: the next time the server reboots, the app is gone.

So, the best way is to copy the file to the remote jboss e.g. through a network share. You might even share the deploy folder directly.

JBoss 4.2 contained a "MainDeployer" MBean which supported remote deployment as far as I know, but this one became obsolete in 5.0. I am not sure whether there is something new in 5.x.

The only approach left is JSR88 (which will not create persistent deployments): http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JSR88Client

Best regards

Wolfgang

[khubla]

Thanks!