How to specify 'Server Locations' for JBoss AS like I can for Tomcat?

[kennardconsulting]

Hi guys,

Thanks for all your hard work on JBoss Tools! I use it every day and it gives me a real boost.

I'm trying to configure the location for JBoss to deploy WARs when running inside Eclipse. Under my 'Servers' tab if I click on, say, a Tomcat instance there is a part of the properties page called 'Server Locations'. Under there, I can specify (among other things) 'Use Tomcat installation' (instead of 'Use workspace metadata') which deploys to the usual /tomcat/webapps folder.

But if I double click a JBoss server there is no such option. I seem to only be able to configure a location of '[workspace metadata]' or '/Servers/JBoss 6'. This is a problem on Windows, because both these locations are under /Program Files, and JBoss AS 6 does not like spaces in folder paths. I get this error:

17:10:08,769 ERROR [org.jboss.kernel.plugins.dependency.AbstractKernelController] Error installing to Start: name=jboss.web.deployment:war=/avant-ss state=Create mode=Manual requiredState=Installed: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 16: file:/N:/Program Files/Eclipse/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core/JBoss_6.0_Runtime_Server1305600327383/deploy/my.ear/my-web.war/

Is there a workaround? Should I open a JIRA?

Richard.

[rob.stryker]

Double-click on your JBoss server to open the Server editor. Go to the second page (Deployment) and at the top of the page you should see THREE options.  1) Workspace Metadata.  2) Server-relative path,  3) custom

For Workspace metadata or server relative path, the text boxes for "Deploy Folder" and "temporary deploy folder" should be disabled (not editable). However if you click 'custom' you should be able to modify these fields.

[kennardconsulting]

Legend! Thanks Rob!