Issue

Created an e:\data\JBApps directory to keep our application war files  separate from the standard JBoss deploy folder – this is not linked in  windows, we have updated the JBoss configuration file  (jboss-service.xml) to include the directory as part of the attribute  below so any wars get picked up by JBoss

      <attribute name="URLs">

         deploy/,file:/E:/data/JBApps

      </attribute>

As per your advice when deploying a new version we delete the WAR file from the above folder.

We then copy the new version of the WAR file into the folder.

What we have noticed is:

1.       By just deploying one application all other applications become unavailable for a period and seem to restart.

2.       The new version does not always start up and so we have to stop/start JBOSS.

3.       Sometimes JBOSS does not stop and we have to kill process JAVA.EXE

4.       Sometimes the new changes are not picked  and we have to go into E:\APPS\Jboss-Inst\jboss-as\server\production\tmp\deploy and 
E:\APPS\Jboss-Inst\jboss-as\server\production\work\jboss.web\localhost to delete any files relating to the application and then restart.