Web Module Deployment Problem with Weblogic [Deployer:149026]

Question

Dear Friends,
I've been facing a problem during deploying an Web Module on Weblogic 8.1. The name of my webmodule is 'MyOraWebModule'.
When I first developed, deployed and tested it in Weblogic 8.1, it was deployed and worked fine. But on the next day, when I tried to redeploy it, the deployment failed. This thing not just happens only once.. it is happeing always i.e. if I develop a new webmodule and deploy/redeploy it, it will work fine ONLY ON THE FIRST DAY (i.e. the day when the web module is created), but on the next day, it shows the following error if I try to redeploy it. The error is:
Task 3 failed: [Deployer:149026]Deploy application MyOraWebModule on myserver.
Deployment failed on Server myserver
Exception:weblogic.management.ApplicationException: prepare failed for MyOraWebModule
Module: MyOraWebModule Error: Context path 'MyOraWebModule' is already in use by the module: MyOraWebModule
Any suggestion or, guideline from you will be highly appreciated.
With Thanks,
... Chisty

Answer 1

Not sure if you are still looking for the answer. I have a similar problem, I have a work around on it but still trying to identify what the issue is. I have deployed multiple web application modules on weblogic 8.1 and on the redeploy I was gettig the exception weblogic.management.ApplicationException: prepare failed for USER_DEFINED_MODULE_NAME
Context path '/' is already in use by the module. when this exception is thrown I observed that the targets attribute of tag WebAppComponent is initialized to the server name. If I stop the server, make the value of the targets attribute to be empty string in config.xml and start the server, the server starts fine. And I could continue. Not sure why this is so since the targets attribute is used to identify on what servers the application needs to be deployed.
Any input on why the weblogic 8.1 is behaving this way when the targets attribute is defined with a value would of great help.
thanks,