unable to programatically deploy a war from outside $SERVER_

[lkrejci]

When trying to programatically deploy a war file to JBoss AS5 I have to make sure that the URL of the war being deployed passed to

DeploymentManager.distribute(String, URL, DeploymentOption[])

points to a place inside $SERVER_HOME. If it does not, several things happen:

1) A correct file is created in the deployment directory of the server but it has 0 size.
2) The deployment never completes.
3) The server is still functioning properly but it is not possible to shut it down gracefully (possibly because of the stuck deployment thread?)

Is this a bug or a (security) feature?

[emuckenhuber]

URLs outside the SERVER_HOME are not handled any different - so this different behavior you described seems quite unlikely.

Can you describe a bit more what you are doing so that i can reproduce that?

[lkrejci]

In Jopr, we're using the same deployment method regardless of whether we run embedded in the admin console or in the remote agent.

The deployment boils down to http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jopr/trunk/modules/plugins/jboss-as-5/src/main/java/org/rhq/plugins/jbossas5/util/DeploymentUtils.java deployArchive() method.

This method would cause the symptoms I mentioned above if run from the agent (i.e. from different JVM on the same machine) and the provided archiveFile would point outside $SERVER_HOME.