[jboss-as7-dev] Missing 404 for non-existent web app context?

[Jaikiran Pai]

Comments inline.

On Monday 18 April 2011 03:17 PM, Remy Maucherat wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 11:29 +0200, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 11:34 -0500, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>>>> Although that only would work for standalone, in domain mode the
>>>> management port is not running in the AS server process.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure it's a good idea to have a welcome page in that mode.
>>>
>>> Normally, all servers that I know of include a welcome of some sort, but
>>> when they do it is usually a normal deployment.
>>
>>
>> Couldn't we at least add a ROOT.war into deployments/ until you figure out
>> how to have a fallback option ? :)
>
> I don't think polluting the user deployments is good. Do you really need
> that, or is it simply a habit ?
IMO, we really need a way to convey (on the browser) to the end user 
that something went wrong (not just 404, but for any other similar codes 
too). A blank page doesn't really help end users.

> Why on the web container port rather on
> the management one ?
I think we need it for both the ports not just web component.


-Jaikiran