WAR does not work under JBoss, but exploded application - works

Question

From time to time we have very strange problem - if we deploy war into JBoss then our application(JSF+Spring+Hibernate) does not work.
But if use exploded deployment then everything works ok.
We have such problems very rarely.
At the same time on one box the same war does not work, but on another - works normally.
Boxes are the same - the same JBoss 5.1 and the same Java 1.5, etc.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Unfortunately JBoss still has hot-deployment issues, that behaviour is rather random, as you have noticed.

You can try this approach, it should be more reliable

$JBOOS_HOME/bin/twiddle invoke "jboss.system:service=MainDeployer" deploy /my/path/to/app/myapp.war

Answer 2

After deploying your application's war to Jboss. Restart Jboss server. Open url :

http://localhost:8080/web-console/

(modify as per port and hostname of your server)

It will show your status of Jboss server. Open J2EE domains nodes(from left hand tree). click on jboss.local.management-->Jboss, you will see the list of WAR deployed inside jboss server.