Error renaming to MANIFEST.MF

Question

I am curious about following error :

Publishing to JBoss 7.1 runtime server - MyEAP has encountered problem
Error renaming C:\(some path) to (MyEAR proj path)\(my war file)\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
you can change these settings in server etc...

I have created a simple EAR project along with a dynamic web project with stuts2. I am deploying EAR file and everything is working fine but whenever I make changes to any file and save I get this error message. What is the exact meaning of this message?

Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe the problem to be that it is necessary to configure a scanner for external deployments.

See: 'Publishing to JBoss 7.1 Runtime Server...' has encountered a problem

In previous versions of JBossAS, there was an exposed JMX server with an option to mark a folder as one that the deployment scanner should look at. This option still exists in AS7, but, we haven't integrated with the management ability yet. THis means we can't do it on the fly, currently, in the current toolset is a bit hurt by this missing feature.

It is still possible in the raw configuration of the server, howerver. This means you can mark your server directly to scan some external folder by modifying your configuration and adding a deployment scanner. The instructions for it are over here:

https://community.jboss.org/wiki/DeployingAnApplicationFromAnExternalDeploymentLocation

To make use of this, double-click your jboss-7 server inside eclipse to open the server editor. You can then switch over to the second page, "Deployments", where you can change the deployment method to "custom" and set any folder that's on the same filesystem as your eclipse installation. Once this is done, you can add that folder to your server's deployment scanner lists as per the wiki above.