Turning off JBoss hot deploy service?

Question

What is the correct way to turn off the JBoss hot deploy service?

This is a production environment.

Edit: JBoss version 5.1.0 GA

Answer 1

I think deleting the "deploy/hdscanner-jboss-beans.xml" file is the correct way to do this.

Answer 2

From JBoss in Action, ch. 3.1.5:

The deployer is configured via the deployers.xml and profile.xml descriptor files, both found in the server/xxx/conf directory. This file defines several POJOs that manage various deployment responsibilities. Table 3.3 identifies each of these POJOs and highlights some of the more interesting configuration properties provided by each one. [...]

And the relevant bits from the table:

Bean: HDScanner

• Property: scanEnabled - Set this to true (default) to enable the hot deployer and to false to disable it. When set to false, applications are deployed only when the server is started or when the deploy method on the MainDeployer MBean is called.

• Property: scanPeriod - The number of milliseconds the hot deployer waits between performing scans. The default is 5000 milliseconds (5 seconds). This value is ignored if scanEnabled is set to false.

• Property: scanThreadName - You can use this to change the name of the thread from its default of HDScanner. The thread name enables you to identify the hot deployer thread if you should take a thread dump.

Answer 3

Property: scanEnabled doesn't exist on JBoss 5.x only on JBoss 4.x for the Deployment Scanner. On JBoss 5.x just delete the hdscanner-jboss-beans.xml from the deploy directory and use the MainDeployer MBean to deploy your applications.