unable to programatically deploy a war from outside $SERVER_

lkrejci Jun 22, 2009 11:48 AM

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?

1. Re: unable to programatically deploy a war from outside $SER

emuckenhuber Jun 26, 2009 5:53 AM (in response to lkrejci)

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?
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2. Re: unable to programatically deploy a war from outside $SER

lkrejci Jun 26, 2009 6:41 AM (in response to 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.
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