This issue applies to EAP 5.1.2 ER2. When you use the admin console to deploy (in exploded form) an EAR that does not contain META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file, you will see an error like this> Failed to create Resource mock-ear.ear - cause: java.io.FileNotFoundException:/home/jmartisk/builds/jboss-eap-noauth-5.1.2-ER2/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/mock-ear.ear/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory) The EAR application (at least in my case) still gets deployed properly, but this error message might cause confusion to the user. Full stacktrace from the EAP log: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/jmartisk/builds/jboss-eap-noauth-5.1.2-ER2/jboss-as/server/default/deploy/mock-ear.ear/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF (No such file or directory) at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:194) at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:145) at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.deploy.AbstractDeployer.deploy(AbstractDeployer.java:156) at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.helper.CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.createContentBasedResource(CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.java:124) at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.helper.CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.createResource(CreateChildResourceFacetDelegate.java:56) at org.rhq.plugins.jbossas5.ApplicationServerComponent.createResource(ApplicationServerComponent.java:317) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.rhq.core.pc.inventory.ResourceContainer$ComponentInvocationThread.call(ResourceContainer.java:525) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
I retested this in EAP 5.2 and did not see the error. Closing as WORKSFORME as there is no RHQ specific action to take at this point. If this issue still exists in admin-console we should get downstream JBPAPP-7526 cloned to EMBJOPR JIRA.