How to set JBoss 7 hot deploy?

[areakbaby]

Hi All,

I use JBoss Developer Studio + JBoss 7,and it work well.

But I can not understand why JBoss 7 do not hot deploy,I try some method but faild.

method one:

jboss7\standalone\configuration\standalone.xml

find
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.0" default-virtual-server="default-host">
           <configuration>
                <jsp-configuration development="true"/>
            </configuration>
            <connector name="http" protocol="HTTP/1.1" socket-binding="http" scheme="http"/>
            <virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="true">
                <alias name="localhost"/>
                <alias name="example.com"/>
            </virtual-server>
</subsystem>

add    <configuration>
                <jsp-configuration development="true"/>
            </configuration>

but it is useless.

method two:

For standalone deployment, go to standalone/configuration directory and open standalone.xml. Look for the line below.

        <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:deployment-scanner:1.0">

            <deployment-scanner name="default" path="deployments" scan-enabled="true" scan-interval="5000" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir"                deployment-timeout="60"/>

        </subsystem>

Add this param to enable hot deploy  auto-deploy-exploded="true"

Changes are as below:

        <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:deployment-scanner:1.0">

            <deployment-scanner name="default" path="deployments" scan-enabled="true" scan-interval="5000" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir"                auto-deploy-exploded="true" deployment-timeout="60"/>

        </subsystem>

when I changed any file the server would restart,this is not I want.

Who hava any idea to make JBoss 7 hot deploy? When change the .jsp or .html files ,then I refresh the browse can see the changes.

[ctomc]

Hi,

what exact version of jboss 7 do you use?

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tomaz

[areakbaby]

Hi Tomaz,

It is jboss-as-7.1.1.Final and JBoss Developer Studio is 5.0.0.GA.

Thank you so much.

Areak

[ctomc]

Hi,

there was a bug in 7.1.1 that coused that development=true attribute was ignored.

if you try with (self build) 7.1.2 or nightly build (7.2.x) it should work.

sorry for inconvinence.

--

tomaz

[areakbaby]

Thank you Tomaz.

I changed my strategy and used Maven to make a WAR file.(apache-maven-3.0.4)

And I found an interesting thing.When I changed the .jsp or .html files it do not hot deploy,but when I changed .java files it works.(Run as Debug on server)

Unbelievable, because the .java files in the WAR file are just .class files.

If I use JBoss 7.1.2 just add:

            <configuration>

                <jsp-configuration development="true"/>

            </configuration>

any other things need to config？

Thanks.

Areak

[lukasw44]

This bug is also in Jboss as version 7.1.0 Thunder ??

or only in version 7.1.1 ??

[kliczko]

Has anybody found solution to around this:

JBoss 7 configuration is as below:

        <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:deployment-scanner:1.0">

            <deployment-scanner name="default" path="deployments" scan-enabled="true" scan-interval="5000" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir"                auto-deploy-exploded="true" deployment-timeout="60"/>

        </subsystem>

When I changed any file the server would restart - this is not I want.

Is there any way to make JBoss 7 hot deploy *.xhtml, *.jsp and *.html files (when change the .xhtml, .jsp or .html files, then I refresh the browse can see the changes) ?

[kliczko]

I have found arrounding:

1. Set in JBoss configuration: auto-deploy-exploded="false"

2. If your exploaded application is named ex. lala.ear (or .war) create in %JBOSS_HOME%/standalone/deployments folder, file: lala.ear.deployed  => thanks of that JBoss deploys exploaded application lala.ear despite configuration attribute auto-deploy-exploded="false" .

3. Enjoy hot deployment of: .xhtml, .jsp or .html files in your exploaded application lala.ear

[srigiri]

Yes Right Artur, Thanks for that 

This is what i did...

We were having scanner tag in the standalone.xml as below

<deployment-scanner path="deployments" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir" scan-interval="5000" auto-deploy-zipped="false" auto-deploy-exploded="false" deployment-timeout="500"/>

When made below change to standalone.xml It didn't worked.

<deployment-scanner path="deployments" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir" scan-interval="5000" auto-deploy-zipped="false"auto-deploy-exploded="false" deployment-timeout="500"/>

Then removed "auto-deploy-zipped="false" and made as below

<deployment-scanner path="deployments" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir" scan-interval="5000" auto-deploy-exploded="false" deployment-timeout="500"/>

It worked...

[areakbaby]

Srigiri Thanks.

I had tested,just *.java files can hot deploy.

The *.jsp and *.html can not.

And this must run as Debug on server.

In fact when I changed a file like login.jsp ,I found the file login.jsp under jboss-as-7.1.1.Final\standalone\deployments\web***.war  was changed,but can not work.

JBoss 4.0, I use ANT copy the login.jsp to jboss-4.0.4.GA\server\default\tmp\deploy\tmp35522***.ear-contents\***-exp.war it works well.

It is a bug in JBoss 7.

[srigiri]

Hi Areak,

Adding one more thing to my comments.

For getting changes to be reflected without restarting the server the below change to be added (7.x)

	<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1" native="false" default-virtual-server="default-host">
	<configuration>
	<jsp-configuration development="true"/>
	</configuration>

So the JSP/HTML and all the other static changes will reflect immediately.

Regards,

Srigiri

[areakbaby]

Hi Srigiri,

I was puzzled. I changed standalone.xml what you said to me,but hot deploy the JSP/HTML failed.

My server is  jboss-as-7.1.1.Final and the IDE is JBoss Developer Studio is 5.0.1.GA.

what is your IDE? Eclipse? Are there any other need to be set?

Thank you so much!

Best Regards;

Areak

[srigiri]

Areak,

We are using Eclipse IDE.

After using the above said configurations in standalone.xml and keeping the ear and war exploded we are able to achieve this.

If you want i can send the standalone.xml I am using...

Regards,

Srigiri

[areakbaby]

Hi Srigiri,

Please send the standalone.xml to me or you can share to all of us as a attachment.

My E-mail is:    [e-mail]

Thank you.

Best Regards;

Areak

[srigiri]

Areak.,

Mailed to [e-mail]

Please send me your standalone.xml file and just details on the deployment directory structure. So that I can try to analyse your issue.

Regards,

Sri