JBoss EAR filenames and version information

[radcortez]

Hi,

I'm in the process of migrating several applications from JBoss 4 to JBoss 7. One big change, is the way the classloading differs from 4 to 7.

So, on Jboss 4 I have a couple of ear files that share services between each others. No special configuration was required, only drop them on deploy folder and everything worked.

On Jboss 7, i had to set them as Dependencies on Manifest. The thing is, I deploy my application using maven filenames, like application-version.ear, which means that I need to put that name on the Dependencies. If I later update one of the ear's I have to update all the manifests, because of the version.

I know I can change the name, and I have done that to fix the problem, but then i loose the ability to identify which version I have deployed.

Does anyone know a way to have the version information somewhere visible in JBoss? I did try several tag's on application.xml, like display-name, description, but those don't seem to be used in JBoss webconsole to display the information.

Thank you,

Roberto Cortez

[ehugonnet]

Hi,

Why don't you filter the dependencies configuration file with maven thus it would always be up-to-date with the version it is compiled against ?

[radcortez]

Hi Emmanuel,

Thank you for your response. That indeed might be a way. I just just wanted to avoid to redeploy every application.

[sfcoy]

In my opinion your two EARs need to be versioned and released together because they appear to be tightly coupled.

[radcortez]

Hi Stephen,

Yes, I thought of that too, and that may be the way. I just wanted to avoid to redeploy everything when you know that an older version of the ear works with a new version of the dependent ear.