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Deploying applications using the CLI
Deploying an application (in the standalone mode) can be easily performed by copying the
application's archives into the
deployment
folder of your server distribution. That's a
pretty handy option; however, we would like to stress the advantage of using a CLI, which
offers a wide choice of additional options when deploying and also provides the opportun-
ity to deploy applications remotely.
All it takes to deploy an application's archive is a connection to the management instance,
either local or remote, and by issuing of the
deploy
shell command. When used without
arguments, the
deploy
command provides a list of applications that are currently de-
ployed, as shown in the following command:
[disconnected /] connect
[standalone@localhost:9990 /] deploy ExampleApp.war
If you feed a resource archive such as a
WAR
file to the shell, it will deploy it on the stan-
dalone server right away, as shown in the following command:
[standalone@localhost:9990 /] deploy ../MyApp.war
By default, a CLI uses the
JBOSS_HOME/bin
file as a source for your deployment
archives. You can, however, use absolute paths when specifying the location of your
archives; the CLI expansion facility (using the
Tab
key) makes this option fairly simple:
[standalone@localhost:9990 /] deploy c:\deployments\MyApp.war
Redeploying the application requires an additional flag to be added to the
deploy
com-
mand. Use the
-f
argument to force the application's redeployment:
[standalone@localhost:9990 /] deploy -f ../MyApp.war
Undeploying the application can be done through the
undeploy
command, which takes
the application that is deployed as an argument. This is shown in the following command:
[standalone@localhost:9990 /] undeploy MyApp.war
