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nvarun · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 161 Location: India

Hello all,

Since 1 week, I was working on a Dynamic Web project in Eclipse 2.0.0.Beta2 IDE using JBoss 4.0.5 GA (and J2EE 1.4). I was encountering some issues, so I imported the complete project into NetBeans 6.5 IDE.

Import was successful and I added JBoss server into NetBeans IDE (Tools > Servers). Now, project is successfully building and deploying. Its absolutely working fine.

Now, some questions;
1. I found "Deploy on Save" disabled in project.properties. Is it due to the server, or Java Platform (1.4) or J2EE version?
2. If not, then if I set the property "j2ee.deploy.on.save" to "true", it displays a tick on "Project Properties Window", with the option still disabled.
3. Does deploy on save work only on non-imported web projects?

Now, if I made any changes to the webpages sources during run time, then I had to "Deploy" to see immediate effect. So, I tried the following steps, I have overriden an "Ant Target" in build.xml;

rdelaplante · Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 50 Location: Toronto, Canada

Petr Hejl · Posted via mailing list.

Hi,
deploy on save is supported only for certain servers so far (namely
Tomcat, GlassFish). This limitation comes from server plugins. In order
to support it these must support directory based deployment. This is
unfortunately not the case for JBoss.

P.

nvarun wrote:

nvarun · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 161 Location: India

Petr,

The hack I wrote in build script, if its ok to use. Then, should I contribute it to NetBeans Community Docs as a wiki. I think it can help users working with JBoss and NetBeans to make use of it, so as to deploy on build, instead of right-clicking the project, choosing "Deploy" for incremental changes.

What say?

Also, Ryan I tried out the same for Glassfish V2 and Java EE Platform as "Java EE 5", "J2EE 1.4", it only created problem once. Thats when, I created a new web app and edit the "project.properties" file before even running/building the project once to disable deploy.on.save

Now, when I run the project once and thereafter making any changes to the webpages during run time, the incremental deploy takes place, while I had disabled it.

PS: Thanks Ryan for the comments and suggestions.

Regards,

nvarun · Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 161 Location: India

I have articulated the hack;
http://wiki.netbeans.org/TaT_DeployOnBuildUsingJBoss

Please have a look and review.

Thanks,

petrioneill · Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

My experience is often "the application server could not be started" message is inaccurate. It is often a timing issue. If you watch the server log output, you can see if this is the case, e.g. the server starts up regardless of the popup message.

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petrioneill · Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

The hack I wrote in build script, if its ok to use. Then, should I contribute it to NetBeans Community Docs as a wiki. I think it can help users working with JBoss and NetBeans to make use of it, so as to deploy on build, instead of right-clicking the project, choosing "Deploy" for incremental changes.

What say?

Also, Ryan I tried out the same for Glassfish V2 and Java EE Platform as "Java EE 5", "J2EE 1.4", it only created problem once. Thats when, I created a new web app and edit the "project.properties" file before even running/building the project once to disable deploy.on.save....... Also this is absolutely brilliant. Really your post is very good for clearing my concepts. Recently i have finished my 1z0-043 exam, which i appear for attaining the certification. Although! it was not so hard to get certified but the study kept me busy whole summer. I've also attained certification of another course of 220-601 exam which I had passed last three months back. In the same time I have completed my thesis project of 350-018 exam which I will going to submit it soon. I really enjoyed my stay over here and gain useful knowledge which I am sure will work for me.