Hot deploy of static files, is it possible?

[marcial.atienzar]

Hi,

I'm comming from glassfish. When we need to tot deploy an static html, png, ... file, in glassfish we only have to copy it on exploded folder of war. In wildfly I don't know if it possible to do it, I can't find the exploded war/ear on filesystem.

Can anyone helpme?

Lot of thanks,

   Marcial

[wdfink]

If you use the deployment folder you can use a xyz.war directory instead of a war file. you are able to manipulate the files there.

For some types you still need a redeploy, others changes take direct effect.

Also you need to have marker files to trigger deployment, like xyz.war.dodeploy file

See the wildfly documentation for this.

[marcial.atienzar]

But if i use remote deploy using cli commands, how can I use deployment folder? What's a marker file?

Lot of thanks,

  Marcial

[wdfink]

If you use CLI this is a managed deployment and you can't deploy exploded archives from remote.

So it is not possible than

[ctomc]

but there are other options

trough remote CLI you can deploy exploded app, but you need to copy it manually.

see what are the options that deploy --help outputs, explodered & unmanaged are what are you looking for.

as for static files go, you don't need to serve them trough war/ear but they can be served directly from anywhere on disk.

see file-handler config in undertow subsystem for more. doing this also bypasses few layers and speeds up serving static files...