Please change the deployment mode to exploded archive in Server Editor

Question

I'm trying to deploy an EAR in weblogic10.3.6 application server. My ear module contains a web application module and and a jar module. When I'm deploying ear to weblogic server this is showing error -

'D:/Workspace/test-web/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml'='/WEB-INF/web.xml'

WebLogic split source deployment only supports resource folder mapping 
to EAR or web content root. Please change the deployment mode
to exploded archive in Server Editor.

How can I set the deployment mode of Weblogic server ?

Answer 1

If you use Eclipse IDE, please right click to web project:

Properties -> Deployment Assembly

and check your deployment assembly list.

For example I have this list in my Deployment Assembly:

src/main/java      | WEB-INF/classes
src/main/resources | WEB-INF/classes
src/main/...       | WEB-INF/web.xml

I deledet web.xml row because the WebLogic supported WEB-INF/classes. Here is an explanation:

If you are mapping external folders to web resources in Deployment Assembly, NOT all the mappings are supported, only resource folder mapping to EAR or web content root are supported in split source. (In your case, mapping to '/WEB-INF/classes/' should be supported, which is a bug we will fix in future release)

Answer 2

You can set the Deployment mode in the propertis of the Weblogic server in the Server View. Right click on the Weblogic server and navigate to Properties -> Weblogic -> Publishing.

The default deployment mode is Virtual application which is the better option if you want the full debugging and Hot Swap functionality.

So instead of changing the deployment mode you should have a look at your Deployment Assembly settings of your application and remove any ambigous source definitons (as described in the other answer).