I just downloaded the 3.1.0 CVS snapshot, and the URLDirectoryScanner is gone. The remaining scanner, URLDirectoryScanner, did not like exploded directories (it tried to deploy index.html), so what then? How do I deploy and redeploy exploded WAR files?

(yeah yeah, it's me, ;-)

Anyway, what seems to happen is that if I point the scanner to the parent directory it will deploy all directories in there, and I just want it to deploy this particular one. Which is what the URLDirectoryScanner used to provide, but now that's gone (and even that one didn't allow for redeploy).

It seems so close. The dir scanner could deploy a particular exploded directory, and it even set the right watch URL (i.e. to the web.xml file), but when I touched that file nothing happened.

If this could work JBoss will be very nice to use for development. Otherwise it's back to the painful "redeploy the whole EAR" thing.

BTW, is there a way to *explicitly* tell JBoss to redeploy it? Some client tool to invoke? That would work too, even better really.

I tried looking in the docs, and also searching the forums, but came up empty.

/Rickard, who-I-guess-should-know-this-but-don't

> prove it, what are you working on now :)

AOP and a CM system :-)

> hmmm right now there is the MainDeployer interface of
> course, you might want to take a look at that, but
> other than that I agree that we should make the
> individual deployment an MBean and have it support a
> "redeploy" operation. You might want to take a look
> at the "DeploymentInfo" which is the internal
> representation of the deployment. This guy should be
> in the navigation of the MBean stuff so you could
> just click on the subdeployment and click on
> "redeploy" as opposed to entering the URL everytime
> (and I don't know that the support for exploded
> subURLs really works).

As long as the URL is the same I don't care, because Ant will be doing the clicking.

/Rickard