Final conclusion....Don't attempt to perform JBoss Middleware Proof of Concepts tire kicking on Network drives under Windows. Simply too much latency at all levels. The stuff runs fine on local drives.
And a general comment on JBoss Middleware community releases; if it's "inconsequential", log levels should be informational at most. Warnings are usually serious meaning things will not run normally in some cases and Errors are, well ERRORS, meaning something is broken. By the time this stuff gets into supported Red Hat channels most of it cleaned out, but the communty stuff, in general, throws out way to many messages at high severity levels that appear to be inconsequential.