Deploying application with several web modules having the same context root

Question

Hi,
I would like to be able to deploy an application in Weblogic 12c having one ejb module and several web modules with the same context root. Even though the web modules have the same context root, each of them is deployed to a different virtual host.
Weblogic allows deploying the modules this way as long as their targets are different (i.e. each having a distinct virtual host). However this works only when I don't select a target for the .ear:
Component Type Current Targets
application.ear Enterprise Application (None specified)
application.jar EJB AdminServer
web1.war WEBAPP virtualHost1
web2.war WEBAPP virtualHost2
However if I select as target for the .ear to be AdminServer, the deployment doesn't work anymore, complaining that the context roots are in conflict.
If I remove web2.war from the .ear and deploy the .ear and .jar to AdminServer and web1.war to virtualHost1, the deployment works but the strange thing is that the web application can be accessed also through the AdminServer's main network channel, even though I would expect that it should be accessible only through virtualHost1 network channel. I believe this is the reason why there are context root conflicts when specifying a target for the .ear, because both wars are made accessible to the main network channel.
The reason why I want to keep the wars inside the same .ear is because I want to make them access the application's local EJBs (since as far as I know it's not possible to access a local EJB outside the application even if they belong to the same VM).
Is there a way to deploy the web modules only to the virtual hosts without being targeted to the main network channel?
Regards,
Alexandru

Answer 1

Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong it will
A corollary to Murphy's law: When everything fails, read the manual.
Web application funda: Every web application must have its own context root. So, if wkfsocos is one
web application then, wkfsocos1 is another web application -
and hence must have its own context root.
Hello Aman,
If you are in E-Commerce version 4.0, then read this
[ISA_Buildtool document |https://service.sap.com/~sapdownload/011000358700001920472003E/ISA_BuildTool_10.pdf]
to create a copy of the application in its own context root.
From your URL pattern I guess you are in E-Commerce version 4.0.
If you are in E-Commerce 5.0 or above, then the
[Extension Guide |http://service.sap.com/~sapdownload/011000358700006120622006E/]gives steps to create a copy with its own context root for use in modification.
(See the chapter on - Creating a project specific Web Application with own context root )
Both these links require access to SAP Service Marketplace. You can also find the
documents through /instguides shortcut in Service Marketplace.
Easwar Ram
http://www.parxlns.com