Wildfly maven plugin not register web context

Question

When i using wildfly maven plugin for deploy my java ee application to my wildfly 8.1.0 standalone web application server with this POM configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2.Final</version>
    <configuration>
        <hostname>127.0.0.1</hostname>
        <port>9991</port>
        <username>root</username>
        <password>manager</password>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

If i run mvn wildfly:deploy the application is deployed and i've this message from server log console:

....
21:45:42,100 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-8) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "MyApp-0.0.1.war" (runtime-name: "MyApp-0.0.1.war")
21:45:42,819 INFO  [org.wildfly.extension.undertow] (MSC service thread 1-7) JBAS017534: Registered web context: /MyApp-0.0.1
21:45:44,319 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (management-handler-thread - 1) JBAS018562: Redeployed "MyApp-0.0.1.war"
....

If i specify the name parameter in configuration section of plugin into POM like this:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2.Final</version>
    <configuration>
        <hostname>127.0.0.1</hostname>
        <port>9991</port>
        <username>root</username>
        <password>manager</password>
        <name>WebApp</name>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

the application is deployed but Web Context is not specified and if i go to: http://127.0.0.1:8080/WebApp the server show error page 404! When application is deployed with this parameter the server console log show only this message:

....
21:44:28,299 INFO  [org.jboss.as.repository] (management-handler-thread - 1) JBAS014900: Content added at location D:\Wildfly\standalone\data\content\c0\e78f2599016bf33187b1049001b210040b829a\content
21:44:28,299 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server.deployment] (MSC service thread 1-1) JBAS015876: Starting deployment of "WebApp" (runtime-name: "WebApp")
21:44:28,705 INFO  [org.jboss.as.server] (management-handler-thread - 1) JBAS018559: Redeployed "WebApp" (runtime-name : "WebApp")
....

Why, only with name specification, the web context is not registerd? Can i specify the web context in configurations parameters like the application name? Someone can help me please?

Answer 1

I've tried this out and it turned out that you will have to set to WebApp.war to get it working.

I would personally prefer setting the name directly in the section using the tag since this is more common and there you can omit the file extension.