deploying exploded wars not in deploy doesn't work

[waldo]

I want to deploy an exploded war that's not under the deploy directory. Say I've got a web-app named "Backoffice" that is in folder "eclipse/workspace/NextGen". I've re-named the "Backoffice" directory to "Backoffice.war". Also, in jboss-service, I've added ",/eclipse/workspace/NextGen/" to the URLs attribute of the URLDeploymentScanner mbean.

But it doesn't work.

When JBoss starts up, it says:

2003-08-28 13:50:53,390 ERROR [org.jboss.web.localhost.Engine] StandardContext[/Backoffice]: Resources start failed:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base C:\jboss-3.2.1_tomcat-4.1.24\server\default\tmp\deploy\server\default\deploy\.\eclipse\workspace\NextGen\Backoffice.war does not exist or is not a readable directory
at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:193)
...etc...

...anybody? I've also tried, in jboss-service, adding ".../NextGen", ".../NextGen/Backoffice.war", ".../NextGen/Backoffice.war/", and other permutations, all to no effect.

[jonlee]

I think your relative path is causing problems for JBoss. Specifically, it does not seem to be able to be able to create the temporary directory structures properly. To test this, try giving an absolute path and see if the problem goes away.

[waldo]

Nope, that's not it. That is an absolute path. In fact, when I change it to "file:/eclipse/etc" it does the same thing. And just before the error, it days

"[EmbeddedCatalinaService41] deploy, ctxPath=/Backoffice, warUrl=file:/eclipse/workspace/NextGen/Backoffice.war/