How to prevent Liferay modify my web.xml?

Question

I am migrating a Liferay 5.x site to 6.1GA2. My problem is that Liferay 6.1 modifies the web.xml of a deployed app that is basically a web service implementation.

It changes the <listeners> definitions which is problematic because there are some Spring-magic involved and the ContextLoaderListener is not initialized correctly.

Is there any way to convince Liferay to leave my web.xml untouched? I have already debugged the BaseDeployer.updateWebXml() method that does the magic but as I see there is no option to do that. I found a few bug tickets in the ticketing system with similar issues but it seems the latest patched version of the file still does not support this feature.

Any hints?

Answer 1

The changes in web.xml are required for webapps that Liferay is interacting with. It appears when you deploy your webapplication through Liferay's ${liferay.home}/deploy folder. If you have a webapp that's unrelated to Liferay and does not need this, you can just deploy it directly to your appserver, without going through Liferay's deploy folder.