JBoss 7 re-deployment

The reason using these manual steps is war:inplace makes a mess if there are war overlays
In Jboss standalone.xml make sure you disable scanning for exploded deploys
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:deployment-scanner:1.1"> <deployment -scanner="-scanner" auto-deploy-exploded="false" auto-deploy-zipped="true" path="deployments" relative-to="jboss.server.base.dir" scan-interval="5000"> </deployment></subsystem>
Make sure you install inotify-tools (in ubuntu) test for exec as inotifywait
in war maven pom.xml have for exploded as <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactid>maven-war-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <webappdirectory>${env.JBOSS_HOME}/standalone/deployments/test-ui.war</webappDirectory> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
To deploy un-zipped run command as "mvn war:exploded"
To force reload of app in jboss make a touch as "touch $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/test-ui.war.dodeploy"
To Make a inotify cron rsync do as follows, have a shell script as #!/bin/bash SRC_DIR=src/main/webapp/jsp EXCLUDES="CVS" DESTN_DIR=$JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/test-ui.war while inotifywait -r --exclude $EXCLUDES -e modify -e create -e delete $SRC_DIR ; do rsync -azrv --exclude "$EXCLUDES" $SRC_DIR $DESTN_DIR done