I've been trying to run my application WAR file in TomEE in the root context, but it fails with the following exception at startup:
Sep 17, 2013 10:57:51 AM org.apache.openejb.assembler.classic.Assembler createApplication INFO: Deployed Application(path=/opt/cc/tomee/trackingsvc_tomee/webapps/trackingsvc_tomee) Sep 17, 2013 10:57:51 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal SEVERE: A child container failed during start java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[]] at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:222) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:83) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.startInternal(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.startInternal(StandardHost.java:800) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1549) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[]] at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:154) ... 7 more Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: can't find path under current webapp deployment [] at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBContextConfig.processAnnotationsUrl(OpenEJBContextConfig.java:382) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1307) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBContextConfig.webConfig(OpenEJBContextConfig.java:273) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:878) at org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBContextConfig.configureStart(OpenEJBContextConfig.java:83) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:369) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5179) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) ... 7 more The app deploys in the root context with the same configuration in 1.6.0-SNAPSHOT. It does not deploy in 1.5.3-SNAPSHOT. My questions: * Is there any workaround to get a WAR app to deploy in the root context in 1.5.2? * Is there a Jira issue with an associated patch and/or commit that fixes the issue that I might be able to cherry-pick back into 1.5.2? Thanks in advance for any help! Jim
