[jboss-as7-dev] Help need with JBoss 7 migration

[Brian Stansberry]

I just tested creating a symlink in deployments to exploded content 
elsewhere, and it worked fine.

Can you start a thread in the user forums with more details on the 
deployment failure?

On 5/29/12 4:58 PM, Shashank Bellary wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I’m trying to migrate to JBoss 7.1.1 from 4.0.5.
>
> In our application we use lot of symlinks to support CMS content which
> is managed externally and to support some file bases caching. Here is
> how the deployment looks like
>
> JBoss 4.0.5:
>
> -----------------
>
> Under “/deploy/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/czen/deploy” we’ve our exploded WAR
> directory release.war
>
> Here release.war is a symlink to ‘/deploy/webapp/current’ which in turn
> is a symlink to an actual release folder like
> ‘/deploy/webapp/release-version-xyz’
>
> ‘release-version-xyz’ folder has the following structure
>
> -WEB-INF
>
> -JSP
>
> -Content
>
> -Cache
>
> -JS
>
> -CSS
>
> Here both Content and Cache folders are symlinks to
>
> /deploy/webapp/
>
> -CMSContent
>
> -Cache
>
> respectively.
>
> This deployment structure worked perfectly fine on JBoss 4.0.5 and now
> I’m moving this app to JBoss 7.1.1 and here is the deployment structure
>
> Under “/deploy/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/czen/deployments” I’ve moved our
> release.war as a symlink. Rest of the structure remains the same as
> mentioned above. With this setup JBoss 7 start up/ application
> initialization fails because it’s not able to follow the symlink and
> find a file that my application is trying to read at startup. I looked
> over the documentation and forums to figure out a solution for this but
> no luck.
>
> Could you guys please help in troubleshooting this issue? Is there some
> configuration parameter that needs to be set or are there other ways.
> Please let me know, I’ve a deadline fast approaching
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Shashank
>
>
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Brian Stansberry
Principal Software Engineer
JBoss by Red Hat