Exploded format deployment

Question

Hi,
I am looking into the weblogic documentation here where it says:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/webapp/deployment.html#158848
"You can redeploy a Web application deployed in exploded directory format when using auto-deployment by modifying a special file called REDEPLOY. You can also cause a partial redeploy by copying a new version of a class file over an old in the WEB-INF/classes directory."
The last statement regarding partial redeploy by copying a new version of classfile, Does weblogic poll for changes in classfile timestamps?
If so, what attribute would control this?
(I am referring to regular java class (not servlet-reloadxxx))
Thanks,
Vijay

Answer 1

Hi,
Yes this is possible in WLW8.1Sp2.
Few things to consider for the exploded directory structure to work
1) The top level directory should always be named with a .ear extension
For ex: if you applicatio name is sampleApp
then the toplevel directory should be "sampleApp.ear"
2) You could either create an ear and just unzip it in the production environment
thereby preserving the extension
or
3) You could build the application and copy it into production environment and
rename the top level directory with a .ear extension. Just make sure you don't
have any project folders in your application folder which is not part of the application.
The need for the directory to have a ".ear" is a requirement with the way Workshop
is designed as of now.
Let me know if you have further questions.
Thanks a lot,
Vimala
"garbl" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hy ,
id there a way to build a deployable ear in exploded format fully compatible
with
ear standards? I mean creating a true ear structure (no split directory
!) without
archiving everything in an .ear?
We need being able to keep an exploded structure in prod environment
in order
to be able to keep on using app configuration via property / xml files
thanks