ZipException occurs specifying resource at EAR root ---------------------------------------------------- Key: WFCORE-3950 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-3950 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Components: Modules, VFS Affects Versions: 6.0.0.Alpha2 Reporter: Tomas Hofman Assignee: Tomas Hofman Priority: Minor Based on the knowledge of several resources, I am aware EAP 7 does not allow resource files at the EAR's root to enter the classpath: * https://access.redhat.com/discussions/671203 * https://developer.jboss.org/thread/253050 * https://blog.akquinet.de/2017/08/14/customizing-application-properties-wi... Nevertheless I tried it anyhow! I placed a Java Properties file in my EAR's root, and added {{jboss-deployment-structure.xml}} to specify the Java Properties file as a {{<resource>}}. Upon deploying this exception was given: {code} ERROR (MSC service thread 1-8) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."test.ear".STRUCTURE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."test.ear".STRUCTURE: WFLYSRV0153: Failed to process phase STRUCTURE of deployment "test.ear" at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:172) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:2032) at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1955) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: WFLYSRV0168: Error loading jboss-deployment-structure.xml from C:\eap-7.1\standalone\tmp\vfs\temp\temp4dfe4a42c99e5d22\content-7091913dc2c38e24\contents\META-INF\jboss-deployment-structure.xml at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.parse(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:338) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.parse(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:310) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.deploy(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:160) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:165) ... 5 more Caused by: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.parseResourceRoot(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:770) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.parseResources(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:700) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.parseModuleStructureSpec(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:347) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.parseDeployment(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:263) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.readElement(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:240) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.readElement(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:69) at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.processNested(XMLMapperImpl.java:122) at org.jboss.staxmapper.XMLMapperImpl.parseDocument(XMLMapperImpl.java:76) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.parse(DeploymentStructureDescriptorParser.java:332) ... 8 more Caused by: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:225) at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:155) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:166) at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:130) at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:90) at org.jboss.vfs.spi.JavaZipFileSystem.<init>(JavaZipFileSystem.java:77) at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:386) at org.jboss.vfs.VFS.mountZip(VFS.java:410) at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.module.descriptor.JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.parseResourceRoot(JBossDeploymentStructureParser12.java:760) ... 16 more {code} Moving the Java Properties file to a readable location (like {{META-INF}}) resolved the exception. However, I am pretty sure "error in opening zip file" isn't the right problem to report back to the user.