WAR doesn't get redeployed in Glassfish from autodeploy
I was able to deploy my WAR the first time I placed it under domains/domain1/autodeploy dir. However, after making some changes and redeploying the WAR to the autodeploy dir, the changes were not picked up. I even deleted domains/domain1/applications/myapp (where myapp corresponds to the myapp.jar being deployed) but the WAR was not redeployed. The server was started and stopped via asadmin:
asadmin start-domain
asadmin stop-domain
What am I doing wrong so that the app does not get redeployed?
UPDATE: I tried manually (re)deploying (also using --force option) the WAR but got the following error in server.log:
[#|2013-03-17T20:47:36.177-0400|SEVERE|glassfish3.1.2|javax.enterprise.system.tools.admin.org.glassfish.deployment.admin|_ThreadID=72;_ThreadName=Thread-2;|Application with name myprojectname is already registered. Either specify that redeployment must be forced, or redeploy the application. Or if this is a new deployment, pick a different name|#]
I do not know how to unregister/undeploy an app that's been once deployed. I tried removing all the references to my app in domain.xml but it didn't work. This seems like a very basic bug in the software.
Answer
I know this was answered long ago, but in case anyone else gets here via google like I did, I have another possible answer ...
After encountering this same issue, I found the following ... the autodeploy/.autodeploystatus directory still had a file referencing the application I was trying to redeploy by copying the war into the autodeploy directory. I had to delete the file in the autodeploy/.autodeploystatus directory, then my application was deployed when the war was copied into the autodeploy directory.
Hope that helps.
NOTE: Apparently, it is obvious to others who use glassfish that you have to delete all this stuff from the hidden .autodeploystatus directory to get your re-deploys to work. Why is it obvious to them? We may never know.