Seam-gen and default ROOT context
If you are using seam-gen to deploy webapps as war-files to a webserver (for example JBoss AS), the root url of your webapp will be something like http://example.com/myproject/. (Where “myproject” is the name that you gave to your webapps when setting it up using seam-gen.) If you want your webapp to be assigned to the root (http://example.com/) (also known as the default ROOT context), then read on.
To change the root context, I perform the following steps. Note, there might be a better way, but this one works for me. If you’re using ejb instead of war, then you probably have to do some additional steps.
Tested using jboss-4.2.2.GA and jboss-seam-2.0.2.SP1.
1) After creating the project, open build.xml. Change
<property name="war.dir" value="exploded-archives/${project.name}.war" />
to
<property name="war.dir" value="exploded-archives/ROOT.war" />
and change
<property name="war.deploy.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/${project.name}.war" />
to
<property name="war.deploy.dir" value="${deploy.dir}/ROOT.war" />
2) Go to the following directory: {your.jboss.home.dir}\server\default\deploy\jboss-web.deployer. And rename ROOT.war to something else. The JBoss manager might then not be available anymore.
3) Now run an explode, and your webapp will be at the ROOT context.
Tags: seam