+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of RHQ Bug #851021 +++ As per http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6550137, java.util.zip doesn't support symlinks. Since RHQ uses those classes for handling the contents of bundles, it does not support symlinks inside bundles. A use case for when you may want to do this is installing the EAP 5.1.2 RHEL native components via a bundle. As of 5.1.2, the zip from the customer portal contains symlinks to some OS-provides shared libraries, rather than copies of them. This is not likely to be easy to fix, without moving to a different archive-handling libraru, and I'm not certain ant supports symlinks in zip files either. --- Additional comment from jlivings on 2012-08-23 02:29:48 EDT --- A work-around is to put the symlinks (and optionally other files) into a tarball and extract them using the ant script: <untar src="abc.tar.gz" compression="gzip" dest="somedirectory"/>
JBoss ON is coming to the end of its product life cycle. For more information regarding this transition, see https://access.redhat.com/articles/3827121. This bug report/request is being closed. If you feel this issue should not be closed or requires further review, please create a new bug report against the latest supported JBoss ON 3.3 version.