November 29, 2009

Make JBossAS 4.3 GA follow symlinks in your deployed app

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If you are doing a deployment like: JBOSS_HOME/server/[config]/deploy/app.war where,

app.war is a symlink to an exploded directory, or
app.war contains symlinks to directories

then you will not see a successful deployment till you instruct JBoss to follow these symlinks by tweaking your JBOSS_HOME/server/[config]/deploy/jboss-web.deployer/context.xml in this the Context element should have: