War packaged inside a Sar fails to deploy

[openmobster]

I have a sar file which contains a war file. The sar file deploys just fine. However, even after specifying the sub-deployment value I am getting the following error message:

org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: Sub deployment o.war in jboss-structure.xml was not found.

Here is the overall structure of my sar file:

openmobster.sar

                 | 3rd party jar files needed by the service

                 | o.war

Here is my jboss-deployment-structure.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jboss-deployment-structure>

  <deployment>

     <dependencies>

       <module name="org.dom4j" />

       <module name="org.apache.commons.collections"/>

     </dependencies>

     <resources>

         <resource-root path="openmobster-sar-2.2-M8.jar">

         </resource-root>

      </resources>

  </deployment>

   <!-- war deployment -->

  <sub-deployment name="o.war">

  </sub-deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>

You help with this will be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Sohil

[jaikiran]

Why are you packaging a war inside .sar instead of an .ear?

[openmobster]

I thought if you are developing a service it should be a sar archive. Mine is a Mobile Cloud Service with features like Data Synchronization, Push Notifications etc. It is not a Java EE App. The war file is a web interface to the system and it relies on the dependencies of its parent which is the sar file.

This setup worked great in JBoss-5.1.0.GA and something that I learned doing on JBoss Portal which also used to ship as a sar file packaged with numerous war files.

I realize that JBoss AS 7 is a complete rework and things are completely new here. Does this mean that you cannot package war files inside a sar file in AS 7. If yes could please be able to tell me how to go about achieving it.

Thanks

Sohil

[jaikiran]

You can just package the jboss-service.xml in the .ear/META-INF folder and also package the .war within that .ear. You don't need a .sar