WRT: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBAS-6693

We might want to add a notion of DeploymentOptions to the DeploymentManager instead of just a boolean argument like:

 DeploymentProgress distribute(String name, URL contentURL, DeploymentOption... options);

I would prefer this, as Ian also once pointed out that things like FailIfExists should also be possible to be specified when deploying an application.
Basically i see this more as an optional option, as a Profile or DeploymentRepository might not support all options.

One thing i'm not really sure is if using the distribute(String name, URL contentURL, DeploymentOption... options) implies copyContent == true?
As e.g. ExplodeDeployment would only be available for copyContent = true.

A DeploymentOption would be a simple enumeration like:

public enum DeploymentOption
{
 FailIfExists, ExplodeDeployment
}

On the DeploymentRepository side we would need to add a additional parameter to the addDeploymentContent like:

String addDeploymentContent(String name, InputStream contentIS, DeploymentOption... options)

I don't really like this, as the profileservice-spi should not really depend on the API from the DeploymentManager. Although it might be ok for 5.x and we'll review that for AS6 again?