JSPs outside war in JBoss AS 7 domain mode (EAP 6.0.1)

[pflapf]

Hi all,

I'm struggling to get a scenario working where we have JSPs (and other stuff) which are not part of the deployed WAR. Tomcat supports additional docbases but there's no such think in JBoss AS 7.

The solution suggested in https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS72/How+do+I+migrate+my+application+from+WebLogic+to+AS+7, section Descriptors and Configuration Files, is to use symlinks.

I tried that and created a symlink in the temp directory (domain/servers/server-one/tmp/vfs/..../) which points to /something. But it seems like JBoss AS doesn't follow the symlink. If I put additional files into the temp directory it's ok.

Does anyone have a clue what to do, or can suggest a better way to do it? Putting all JSPs (and pictures, etc.) into the WAR is not an option.

Thanks,

Dirk

[jaikiran]

Dirk Müller wrote:

Putting all JSPs (and pictures, etc.) into the WAR is not an option.

What's the reason for that no being an option? Since that is how web application are supposed to be deployed.

Edit: I meant putting the jsps within the war.

[pflapf]

The JSPs are auto-generated by a CMS and we're not able to convince the operations team that whenever new content is released a multi-megabyte WAR needs to be deployed, even if it could be done automatically.

[nickarls]

Wouldn't an exploded war work? It's not much different from a directory(?)

[pflapf]

In domain mode deployments as expoded WARs are not supported.

You can deploy it as unmanaged module but it won't be a WAR and you can't refer to it from a (managed) WAR.