Deployment plan cookie-name not applying

Question

I have a ear containing multiple wars. The EAR has a weblogic-application.xml containing:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-application xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90" xmlns:j2ee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90 http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/920/weblogic-application.xsd">
<application-param>
<param-name>webapp.encoding.default</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</application-param>
<session-descriptor id="ID000193">
<cookie-name>ZSESSIONID</cookie-name>
<timeout-secs>900</timeout-secs>
<id-length>14</id-length>
<sharing-enabled>true</sharing-enabled>
<url-rewriting-enabled>false</url-rewriting-enabled>
</session-descriptor>
</weblogic-application>
That is the only place the cookie-name ZSESSIONID is mentioned in any config file in the ear.
I have a deployment plan that has in part:
<deployment-plan xmlns="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90 http://www.bea.com/ns/weblogic/90/weblogic-deployment-plan.xsd" global
-variables="false">
<application-name>myapp.ear</application-name>
<variable-definition>
<variable>
<name>SessionDescriptor_CookieName_125796842519611</name>
<value>XSESSIONID</value>
</variable>
</variable-definition>
<module-override>
<module-name>myapp.ear</module-name>
<module-type>ear</module-type>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>weblogic-application</root-element>
<uri>META-INF/weblogic-application.xml</uri>
<variable-assignment>
<name>SessionDescriptor_CookieName_125796842519611</name>
<xpath>/weblogic-application/session-descriptor/cookie-name</xpath>
<operation>replace</operation>
</variable-assignment>
</module-descriptor>
<module-descriptor external="false">
<root-element>application</root-element>
<uri>META-INF/application.xml</uri>
</module-descriptor>
</module-override>
The change is not having any effect. I know that the plan is being applied since I see "References were found in deployment plan for module ..." in my startup and if I intentionally syntax error the file it fails to launch. This is Weblogic 10.0 MP1 / java 1.5. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this or what might cause it?
Edited by: jhmartin on Dec 4, 2009 11:48 AM

Answer 1

Hi,
I have developed a Simple TestCase with Step By Step Instructions It's Working fine for me in WLS-10.3. Please let me know if you are following any thing else...
http://jaysensharma.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/updating-cookiename-using-plan-xml/
Thanks
Jay SenSharma
http://jaysensharma.wordpress.com (Wonders of WebLogic Are Here)
Edited by: Jay SenSharma on Dec 16, 2009 1:23 PM