What's the difference between the Maven JBoss deploy plugin and just copying?

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm using JBoss 7.1.1.Final, as well as Maven 3.0.3 and the Maven-JBoss plugin, v 7.1.1.Final.  I notice when I deploy with the JBoss plugin, using

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          mvn install jboss-as:deploy

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it takes longer to deploy than simply copying the app to the JBoss deploy directory using

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          cp target/myproject.war $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/

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Is there any difference between these two methods of deployment?  If not, I'm just going to use the faster one.

THanks, - Dave

[jamezp]

Overall they're probably not all the different. The main difference is the maven-plugin blocks until it gets a response from the server on whether the deployment was successful or not. The later uses the deployment-scanner.

FWIW too the newest release of the plugin is 7.4.Final, though I doubt it's much faster.

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James R. Perkins