Deployment problem under Windows 7 / 64bit ?

[ula.uvula]

Hello community,

I'm a beginner with Jboss and in the J2EE world, so I have not so much experience.
In the past I had no problem with auto publishing of the project into the AS.

Now I have (must) migrated my system to
Windows 7 / 64bit
JDK 1.6.0_23 / 64bit
Eclipse Helios JEE 64bit
I also have now installed JBoss Tools 3.2
  - frist only a submodul to have the Runtime Jboss 6 wizard.
  - later I had selected "All Jboss tools".
JBoss 6.0.0 Final
JBoss 5.1.0 GA

In the following, I do every thing within eclipse (no maven/ant etc).

- If I setup a EJB (3.1) project and deploy it into the Jboss directory (server/default/deploy)
  the project is started an I can access with a small java client to the bean.
- There is a simple method, printing to stdout.
- If I call the client, I see the output string in the console output from Jboss.

- If I change my bean
  - I see a new class file is created by eclipse (auto build) in the bin directory
  - I see in server/default/deploy/... a new class file is copies into the deploy directory

- I don't see any "reloading" messages in the Jboss logging
- My client shows the old output string
- If I select a "full publish" in the eclipse tab "server"
  - I see the changes are deployed an loaded
  - my client is showing the new message.

- Any time I modify the java class, I can see the same
  - new compiled, new copy in deploy dir, but NOT reload
  - any time I do a manual "full publish", its running.

BUT now:
- if I create a simple XML file like META-INF/a.xml
  - any time, if I modify this file, the deployment is running automatically
  - e.g:
    1) I modify the java class
    2) I modify the a.xml file
    3) I wait until the reload message appears in logging
    4) I call the client and now I see my modifications

In the same environment I have used a glassfish server.
Here I can modify my java class, save it and the changes are
published to the server and are active.

Confusing....
Any ideas?

Uwe

[wdfink]

It looks like that eclipse only copy the *.class file to deploy (am I right?)

In this case JBoss does not pick up the change, only EAR/WAR/JAR and different types of XML are supported.

If eclipse use 'exploded' deployment (e.g. deploy/myapp.ear/.../*.class) the META-INF/ files must be touched to reload the application.

If you modify a deploy/*.xml file the hotdeploy will pick up it imediately.

[ula.uvula]

Hi,

yes, you are right. I see only a copy of the new *.class in the deploy directory of jboss.

In the deployment directory, there is not a single jar file. I see a extracted (exploded) directory with the name of my project like "myappl.jar"

and below ohter directory from the packages etc.

But if you tell me: eclipse use 'exploded':

where can I configure this? I'm a beginner.

Is this because I use JBoss Tools?

The only hint (exploded) I see is in eclipse within the "server" tab, opening my jboss server configuration.

In the "deployment" tab I can choose the deployment directory (workspace metadata, jboss deploy folder, custom folder).

Also in this tab, I see "Deploy projects as compressed archives".

If I activate this option:

  - I see in the deployment directory now a single file with the name "myappl.jar"

  - Changing the java code, don't have any affect to the deployment. Jarfile in deploy is not changed

  - Editing a xml file also has no affect to the deployment.

  - Manual calling "full publish" is working

Uwe

[wdfink]

I'm not very familar whit JEE development completly with Eclipse (use only Eclipse without JEE support because of environment).

But I play around with it and I use always the context menu 'Export' to deploy the created EAR/WAR/JAR into the JBoss.

This looks like working for me.

[peterj]

Is autobuild turned on in Eclipse?

[ula.uvula]

Hi,

if you mean within eclipse: Project > Build Automatically    YES

In the meantime I made a new test:

1.) I removed eclipse, jboss 5.1

2.) I installed eclipse and jboss (unzipped both archives)

3.) Configured a new server with the eclipse build in mechanism (?), I mean, no plugin installed, only the jee support from eclipse

     Windows>Preferences>Server>Runtime Environment>Add>Jboss v5.0

4.) Created a new server configuration in the server tab and started the server (without problems/errors)

5.) Created a new workspace and made a new ejb project, created all java packages/classes and

     Run As>Run On Server and choose the new server.

6.) Deployment message in logging

7.) client is OK

8.) Changed the source and waited ~ 10 sec. The change was deployed by eclipse through a "ant" task.

9.) client shows the change.

10.) Happy

Now I have installed JBoss Tools (only a sub modul (JBossAS Tools)

a.) registered a new server with "Jboss community>JBoss 5.1 Runtime"

b.) created a new server and started this server

c.) switched the project to the new server.

d.) Same behavior, than may initial posting

e.) in the server tab I see a very short flashing "republishing", if I save the source.

f.) find all new *.classes in the deploy directory, but the Jboss is not recognizing the redeployment.

g.) If I create same METAINF/a.xml file and modify this file. The redeployment is running (shown in logging) and changes are activated.

Any ideas?

Uwe

[peterj]

Sounds like a JBoss Tools bug, or maybe it's a feature ;-). I don't know if any of the Tools developers monitor this forum, the Tools forums is at http://community.jboss.org/en/tools?view=discussions. Perhaps a kindly administrator could move this post there, or if not you could place a brief post there (a sentence at the most) with a link to this post.

[maxandersen]

JBoss Tools simply copy the changed files - upto JBoss AS to detect if it wants to restart.

Thus nothing different from using this in jboss tools/eclipse or copying from command line.

lets continue on jboss tools if there are additional things.