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

[David M. Lloyd]

On 04/18/2011 11:57 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> On 4/18/11 9:59 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> On 4/18/11 9:56 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>>> On 04/18/2011 09:51 AM, Brian Stansberry wrote:
>>>> If we're going to do it as a true deployment (i.e. one that shows up in
>>>> the config file's<deployments>     section and not a hack like we did in
>>>> Alpha1 for the jdbc rars) then we need to do JBAS-9020 and treat it as
>>>> "unmanaged" content
>>>>
>>>> <deployment name="ROOT.war" runtime-name="ROOT.war">
>>>>          <fs-archive path="ROOT.war"
>>>> relative-to="jboss.server.system.content.dir"/>
>>>> </deployment>
>>>>
>>>> Treating it as managed content ain't gonna fly.
>>>>
>>>> <!-- No way!
>>>> <deployment name="ROOT.war" runtime-name="ROOT.war">
>>>>         <content id="d37ede977b022a1456ec5e7a5eee07549cb1c414"/>
>>>> </deployment>
>>>> -->
>>>
>>> Yeah this is what I was getting at.  To Remy's point though we will
>>> probably want a nice name like "jboss-welcome.war" or something.
>>>
>
> Sounds good. BTW, to help clarify, that
> "jboss.server.system.content.dir" above is a system path that points to
> a special location in the dist for this kind of thing, probably a peer
> to "standalone/configuration", "standalone/data", "standalone/log",
> "standalone/deployments". For domain mode an analogue would be under
> "domain".
>
> We had such a location in Alpha1. See strikeout-text discussion of it in
> http://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossAS7UserGuide

TBH in this particular case, it could most likely exist outside of 
"standalone" or "domain" in some other location.  After all if we ship 
this file, we can reference it by file name even in domain mode.

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