[GERONIMO-375] DeploymentException: Module was not a war: console-standard-SNAPSHOT.war

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-M4
• Component/s: deployment, web
• Assignee: David Jencks
• Reporter: Jeremy Boynes
• Created: 13/Oct/04 16:11
• Updated: 16/Jul/06 18:00
• Resolved: 11/Mar/05 12:48

Description

If the web.xml file inside the war is malformed then the following. not very helpful exception is printed:

org.apache.geronimo.deployment.DeploymentException: Module was not a war: console-standard-SNAPSHOT.war
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.addModules(EARConfigBuilder.java:467)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getEarPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:205)
at org.apache.geronimo.j2ee.deployment.EARConfigBuilder.getDeploymentPlan(EARConfigBuilder.java:110)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:133)
at org.apache.geronimo.deployment.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:83)
at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.Kernel.invoke(Kernel.java:231)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.CommandLine.<init>(CommandLine.java:106)
at org.apache.geronimo.system.main.CommandLine.main(CommandLine.java:64)

Please can we reports that the DD is invalid and ideally explain why. For example, repoting that taglib elements need to be inside a jsp-config tag (like when a 2.3 document is changed to a 2.4 schema)