Glassfish and Spring Boot: .war re-deployment failed

Question

I am trying to deploy an application build from https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-convert-jar-to-war to local glassfish4. And it delpoys well for the first time (if I can call some exceptions from the framework good behaviour). At least, I can open the project's index page in browser.

But if I try to undeploy it and re-deploy, or just overwrite .war file in autodeploy directory, deployment fails. And nothing seems to be added to glassfish log file.

The projects I published from eclipse using some its mechanisms deployed and re-deployed successfully.

Here is the log with related contents: http://pastebin.com/zSeMw5tC

What can be the problem?

Answer 1

I did some experiments with Glassfish a while ago. The CDI implementation is really broken IMO (it shouldn't load classes to scan them for annotations), but the apps I tried worked on GF 4 if there is a WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml containing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
      http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://docs.jboss.org/cdi/beans_1_0.xsd"
bean-discovery-mode="none">
    <scan>
        <exclude name="org.springframework.**" />
        <exclude name="org.apache.**" />
        <exclude name="com.google.**" />
    </scan>
</beans>

Nothing I did ever worked in GF 3 (older CDI spec and no way to exclude things I think).