[doraemon]

Hello to all.

We are migrating a huge legacy JBuilder project structure to Eclipse, and I have the task of "mimmicking" the old deploying structure with Eclipse. The app. server is JBoss.

First of all, our app. current deployment is an uncompressed EAR structure, like this:

miapp.ear
\Help - > uncompressed WAR structure)
\Client -> uncompressed WAR structure with JNLP files and app. Client jars
\ejb -> EJB jars
\Lib -> library jars for EJB, divided into some folders for own libs, third party libs, etc.

\****-INF

We need to maintain the same structure for easy client updating and developing (we need to debug in JBoss, and waiting for a huge EAR build is a real pain ! :-) ), and I couldn't find any option - public or "obscure" - to do the deploying as we used to do.

¿Is there any parameter for preventing the EAR/WAR builder to compress the files, and making only the structure?

¿Can I specify the deployment structure directories as above? ¿Editing the XML config files like application.xml, perhaps? ¿The builders will deploy the files in the specified folders?

Greetings from Spain, and sorry for my bad English :-P.

[doraemon]

Hello again.

After some investigations, we altered the Ant script for jBoss Deployment:

<Eclipse root>/plugins/org.eclipse.jst.server.generic.jboss_XXX\buildfile s\jboss323.xml

We edited the script and commented the <jar> and <copy file> tasks,and we introduced a new <copy> task :

<move todir="${server.publish.dir}/${module.name}.ear">
<fileset dir="${module.dir}"/>
</move>

To keep right the undeploy targets, we changed the <delete file> task for a <delete dir> one :

<delete dir="${server.publish.dir}/${module.name}.war" failonerror="false"> </delete>

This "hack" works on WAR deployment too.

Looking at the custom layout problem, if you edit the project settings file .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component and change the deploypath label value to, for example, /ejb, the deployer saves EJB jars in this directory, but library files from utility projects remains in the root directory of the EAR.

¿Some documentation of the file out there ?