Weblogic application context root is war file name instead of name specified in weblogic.xml

Question

I have an application which I have deployed using Maven to Weblogic 10.3.6. I have specified context root in weblogic.xml as

<context-root>/myapps</context-root>

The problem I am having is it is taking the war file name as context root instead of the name I have specified in weblogic.xml

How can I change the context root instead of the name taking war file name as context root?

Weblogic.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<weblogic-web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd 
 http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app 
 http://xmlns.oracle.com/weblogic/weblogic-web-app/1.0/weblogic-web-app.xsd">
 <context-root>/myapps</context-root>
<container-descriptor>
        <prefer-application-packages>
            <package-name>antlr.*</package-name>
            <package-name>org.hibernate.*</package-name>
            <package-name>javax.persistence.*</package-name>
        </prefer-application-packages>
    </container-descriptor>
    </weblogic-web-app>

Answer 1

I assume this is happening because of your Maven setup/properties. (The same can happen with jDeveloper, if you don't have a property set it will override your context root).

Have you seen this answer? Run with Netbeans (and Maven) the right context root

And the corresponding Maven link: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ear-plugin/examples/customizing-context-root.html

Answer 2

If you are using eclipse/oepe - the context root is in .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component file and wtp overrides your files

correct it here and eclipse would respect it

Edit: Looks like they fixed this the right way in 2015

if you are using maven, put this in the pom file

<properties>
  <m2eclipse.wtp.contextRoot>my_context_root !</m2eclipse.wtp.contextRoot>
</properties>

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=461068