How to cluster a .ear/.war/.jar/.rar on AS5.0?

[amlodzin]

The FarmService from AS 4 apparently provided a synch service for deployments - which presumably kept a deployment in synch on all cluster members. It also had the capability of distributing a deployment from one cluster member to all other cluster memebers.

In AS 5.0, without the farm service, how does one deploy an application that is supposed to be clustered? Do I manually copy the deployment file to each cluster member myself? If so, that's fine, albeit inconvenient, but still doable. But, how do I indicate that a deployment is to be distributed?

Again, in AS 4, the farm service defined a specific directory, the contents of which were deployments intended for clustering/distribution. But AS5 doesn't have the farm service, hence no such directory. How then do I tell AS5 to cluster/distribute a deployment? On the flipside, how do I ensure a deployment is not clustered/distributed when the AS instance is participating in a cluster?

Btw, I'm looking at JBoss 5.0.0.GA - until it is EOL'd, I will have to use it.

[brian.stansberry]

In 5.0 you manually copy the deployment file to each cluster member. When you make updates you copy again.

The farming functionality will be restored in 5.1.0.

But how do I indicate that a deployment is to be distributed?

The only thing farming does it copy the deployment around the cluster; it doesn't affect the behavior of the deployment at all. E.g putting a war in farm/ never had the effect of enabling session replication.