deploy and undeploy multiple artefacts to JBoss using Maven

Question

I intended to use JBoss-Maven-Plugin for hotdeployment of jars to JBoss. I have three projects A, B, C that depend on each other so if I want to redeploy A I first have to undeploy C, then B, then redeploy A, then B, then C. Now I'm having a hard time finding a way undeploying the artifacts and then deploying them in reverse order. Might this be out of Maven's scope and I should be using Ant for this task?

Actually it even gets trickier if I have four projects where B and C depend on A and D depends on both B and C - would that always have to result in a double redeployment of D?

Answer 1

It's hard to say without more details but with what I know about the Maven JBoss Plugin, the following questions come to mind:

• What are these JARs?
• Where are they located?
• Did you actually try to specify them all as fileNames to hard-deploy and hard-undeploy them?
• Shouldn't you actually bundle them in an EAR?