Hot deploy on JBoss - how do I make JBoss “see” the change?

Question

I am developing a Java EE application that I deploy over and over again on a local JBoss installation during development. I want to speed up the build by hot deploying my ap

Answer 1

Solution for Netbeans 8.02 and 8.1 IDE and JBOSS EAP 6.4:

1. From the services tab of Netbeans, add JBOSS server to your "servers" node.

2. If you are using MAVEN, netbeans compiles files and maven copies files to ./target directory. You need to create a symbolic link from .\target to JBOSS_HOME\standalone\deployments. Under windows, an example command would be

   cd %JBOSS_HOME%\standalone\deployments mklink /d MyWebApplication.war %PROJECTS_HOME%\MyWebApplication\target\MyWebApplication-1.0.0

   The above creates a symbolic link from %JBOSS_HOME%\standalone\deployments\MyWebApplication.war to \target\MyWebApplication-1.0.0 which is where maven transfers all files after compilation, or after a jsp, html or any other file changes.

3. Last think to do is to create a CentralManagement.war.dodeploy file in %JBOSS_HOME%\standalone\deployments. This file will tell JBOSS to deploy the war "file" as a web application