How does Intellij deploy to JBoss?

Question

I finally have my application in IntelliJ and deploying to JBoss. I\'d like to get hot deploy working but it looks like I need to understand how IntelliJ and JBoss interact.

Answer 1

Please refer to the documentation.

Basically, you need an exploded Artifact configuration with the directory name ending with .ear.

Build | Make performs hot deployment as well as Update action (which is configurable and can update only resources, resources and classes, optionally redeploy or restart the server).

Instead of copying your application to JBoss, IDEA runs it with appropriate parameters so that it uses Artifact directory instead. Configuration is very flexible and you can just change the artifact directory location to reside under JBoss directory.