How to deploy a EAR app as zipped from Eclipse into Wildfly using JBoss Tools plugin?

Question

My operating system is Windows 7 64-bit.

I am using Eclipse Luna. I have JBoss Tools 4.2.3.Final plugin.

I am using Wildfly 8.2.1.Final in Standalone mode.

I have a EAR app named TestApp.

To publish it to Wildfly from Eclipse, in the Servers view, I right click on the Wildfly server to open the pop-up menu and click on Publish option.

When I publish it to Wildfly from Eclipse, it is deployed as exploded in standalone\deployments directory i.e. a sub-directory named TestApp.ear is created in standalone\deployments directory which has all the files.

What I want is when I publish it to Wildfly from Eclipse, it is deployed as zipped in standalone\deployments directory i.e. a zip file named TestApp.ear.

How can I do that?

When I work in Eclipse with old JBoss version 4.2.3, when I deploy to JBoss from Eclipse, it is deployed as zipped but how to get the same way with Jboss Tools plugin?

Thanks

Answer 1

Double click on WildFly in "Servers" view which will open its properties page.

There are 2 tabs in it: Overview and Deployment.

Go to "Deployment" tab.

There is an option "Deploy projects as compressed archives" with a checkbox besides it. In you case it is not checked.

Check it then save it.

Next time when you deploy the EAR app it will deploy as compressed.