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hi all ,
i am using jboss as my application server and eclipse as my development environment .whenever i make some changes i directly put the compiled class files in the WEB-INF/classes directory. and will restart the server for each and everytime when i replace the .class files. Is there any mechanism where the JBoss will automatically load the replaced .class files instead of restarting because for me restarting takes almost 10 to 15 mins. and doing that often makes me sit idle
 
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James,

Welcome to JavaRanch

Is there any mechanism where the JBoss will automatically load the replaced .class files instead of restarting



If you have deployed the application in an exploded form, then you can follow the step mentioned here for redeploying the application. You do not have to restart the server.
 
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hi thanks jai for your reply. as it is said in the link (Exploded Form) i have deployed my application in exploded form . that is it is inside a folder called "myapp.ear" and my web app is placed in a folder called "myweb.war" inside my ear directory. but whats my scenario is i used to do changes in some java files . i want to simply replace the compiled class files without restarting the server. but in the link wat you have provided just tells about the configuration files but not about .class files.

once again thanks for spending your valuable time for replying to my post


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So you now have a .ear folder. Once you do some changes to a .class file in your ear(or war), all you have to do is "touch" (to change the last modified timestamp) of the application.xml file (which is present in the META-INF folder of your ear). Doing so, will "redeploy" ONLY your application, it wont restart the server. Is this what you were looking for?
 
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hi jai , thats what i am exactly looking for . and i did as you specified just touched my application.xml file . it redeployed the application . but there are problems in database connections. my application has got a login page(the first page of my app) . there for the labels "user name" and "passowrd" we have custom tags which will fetch the labels from the database . But now after redeployment it shows null in all label field. and it is not even logging in because even logging needs database lookup. so i guess there is some database connection problem after redeploying. so let me try to look how db related activities are done in my app.

thanks once again for the reply . let me try this technique in some other app
 
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