What is caching in Seam or JBoss?

[tony.herstell1]

Something is caching pages (.xhtml) in JBoss or Seam itself. This is causing a huge productivity problem for us.

This feature appeared about 1 year ago and has not gone away.

We have projects laid out in MyEclipse such that we have EAR, Jar and War. (This was done using booking project many years ago now...).

As the project is perfectly laid out as a valid Ear when MyEclipse uses XXXX delpoyment to simply lay the files out inside JBoss.

You can hack away with .xhtml or java code and JBoss happily carries on regardless only throwing a wobbly and requiring a re-start if a method signiture changes (or the like).

This is VERY VERY VERY efficient way to work (No ANT, Maven, Build Scripts, Sitting around on yourarse waiting for a Re-Deoplyment every 2 mins).

Now, Around about Seam 2.x something changed and a .xhtml cahnge is NOT passed through immediately... you have to keep refreshing the page and randomly the cahnge eventually appears.

I need to know how to turn this off in JBoss and/or Seam.

As I ssaid with numerous dvelopers now affected (the Seam House is growing) it is now costing a lot of money.

I look forwards to a response.

[tony.herstell1]

 xmlns:framework="http://jboss.com/products/seam/framework" xmlns:web="http://jboss.com/products/seam/web"
    xsi:schemaLocation="...
                 http://jboss.com/products/seam/web http://jboss.com/products/seam/web-2.2.xsd">

  <web:hot-deploy-filter installed="false" disabled="true"/>

This does not work by the way.

Sorry for spelling earlier, I hit send as apposed to preview.

Tony
www.thesoftfact.com

[jaikiran.jai_forums2005.yahoo.co.in]

Just a FYI - this is also being discussed here http://community.jboss.org/message/576892#576892

[tony.herstell1]

Yes, that was my post. ... and answered (I hope).

JBAS-6590

Seems to be working again now.
Make change to .xhtml, save, refresh, instant change to page.
Will try with code to see if has same effect shortly.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!--
    JBoss Seam + JBossAS integration
-->
<deployment xmlns="urn:jboss:bean-deployer:2.0">

  <!-- Seam deployer -->
  <bean name="SeamDeployer" class="org.jboss.seam.integration.microcontainer.deployers.SeamWebUrlIntegrationDeployer"/>

  <!-- Seam modification type matcher -->
  <!--<bean name="SeamMTMatcher" class="org.jboss.seam.integration.microcontainer.deployers.SeamTempModificationTypeMatcher"/>-->

</deployment>

[tony.herstell1]

Can a Seamster give any indication what the side effects of commenting this out are.
Hopefully it was just added for Ant/Maven users to get thir stuff deploying in which case there should be none.
Thx.

[mana.hotmana76.gmail.com]

Commenting out is the result of JBoss AS 5 bug/feature. Look at http://community.jboss.org/thread/2417

[antibrumm.mfrey0.bluewin.ch]

Hi
I dont know if this could help you but i've built an antscript that searches the temporary deploy folder and copies the webapp folder from my eclipse projekt into it. This works quite perfectly for me since i do not need to restart jboss all the time. I dont have the andscript here right now but i can provide it if you like.

I use eclipse helios, maven and jboss4.2.2

[tony.herstell1]

Thank you Martin but we moved away from the need for Ant or indeed any build system a few years ago and would not like to go back to those days unless we absolutely had to.

[aareshchanka]

That is not problem of Seam but IDE problem.

One solution is:

You can configure server in ide in such a way that it will deploy files to jboss deploy folder.

Then write ant script that will copy xhtml files from eclipse to jboss. Add builder in eclipse to your project that will automatically invoke copy script after save. Make it run in background. There is 100% garantee that all changes will be applied on the server.

Regards, Alex.

[tony.herstell1]

Thanks for reply Alex.

The above Solution (comment out some of JBoss config) seems to have done the trick as it removed the 5 second lag.

I would not be surprised if MyEclipse does something like you suggest under the join but it is abstracted away.

Tony