The deployment within JBoss Eclipse IDE can be done in two ways:
- A file-system copy: Copies a file from your project into any other location on your computer (including network drives, etc)
- A local deployment through the MainDeployer MBean (Experimental). The URL of the resource is sent to the MainDeployer Mbean, which deploys and watches it.
In addition, the deployment target is stored during the workbench session. This means that if you have deployed a package on a target, you can redeploy or undeploy it without specifying the target. The Deployer plugin automatically creates file-system targets from the debug configurations. Other deployment target can be defined.
Select Window > Preferences. The workbench preferences appears. Select JBoss-IDE > Deployer to display the defined deployment targets. The upper area contains the file system targets build upon the debug configuration defined. The lower area contains the user-defined deployment targets. |  |
We assume that we want to deploy to a pre-defined JBoss instance and we don’t define custom deployment targets. The deployment is fairly simple. Right click on the FiboApp.ear file and select the Deployment > Deploy To… item. |  |
A dialog box appears with the list of the deployment targets. It contains both the default and the user-defined deployment targets. Select the one you are interested in (the one for the running server is probably a good idea !). |  |
In the console view, you should see some deployment activity. The J2EE application is now deployed. |  |
When a resource is deployed, a small decorator appears in the top-left corner of the icon. |  |