JBoss AS 6.0.0.Final multiple ear deployment order

[wvdenhau]

Hi all,

I was wondering what would be the best approach to specifying a specific order in jboss deploying my ears.

My setup is:

1. Core.ear
2. Device1.ear, Device2.ear, ...
3. App1.ear, App2.ear, ...
4. AdminApp.ear

This is the order I need my ears to get deployed as for example all 2,3,4 ears depend on core, some app ears depend on device ears etc. ...

In a previous version, running on jboss 4.2.3 this was accomplished by simply naming the ears alfabetically.

So I am wondering if there is a more suitable solution, e.g. where I can explicitly set a deployment order.

Even nicer would be if I could have something like:

server/default/deploy/core/

     -Core.ear

server/default/deploy/devices

     -Device1.ear, ...

server/default/deploy/apps

     - App1.ear, ...

server/default/deploy/admin

     -AdminApp.ear

where I then generically specify deployment order of the core,devices,apps,admin directories in some way and I could simply drop new apps, device ears etc. without having to change anything to my distribution.

Any thoughts?

Kind regards,

Wim.

[wdfink]

I suppose with JBoss6 there is the same mechanism like before, Files in deploy/deploy.last will be deployed after all other.

Otherwise (JBoss) deploy in alphabetic order.

Unfortunately the spec does not define dependency of EAR files.

[wvdenhau]

Thanks,

Was afraid that would be the answer

[alesj]

Was afraid that would be the answer

You can add jboss-dependency.xml files to your .ear-s.

* http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBoss5custommetadatafiles

This way you define explicit dependecies between deployments or services.

[wvdenhau]

Thanks Ales, just what I need.