Someone (Lars Hofhansl) replied to me directly with a solution to my
problem. Running jBoss as a user with write-access to $TOMCAT_HOME solved it.
May I suggest this is added to a FAQ somewhere, and maybe to make the error
message a bit more "specific"
Fergus
>A look at the tomcat-service source files revealed that jBoss makes some
>(not necessarily valid) assumptions
>about your environment.
>
>1. $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT is setup as the root context
>2. $TOMCAT_HOME is setup as Tomcats working directory
>
>The problem is 2. Typically the user running jBoss does not have write
>access to TOMCAT_HOME, and thus
>Tomcat can't generate the servlets for the JSPs.
>
>Either change org/jboss/tomcat/EmbeddedTomcatService.java in
>lib/ext/tomcat-service.jar to specify a different
>working directory (that's what I did), or make $TOMCAT_HOME writeable for
>the user that invokes jBoss.
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