I have a Web-Application with dependencies to a Datasource and want the WebApp
to be redeployed when the *-ds.xml file is changed.

So I injected the Dependencies in the jboss-web.xml:

<jboss-web>
<depends>jboss.jca:name=TranstoolDS,service=DataSourceBinding</depends>
<depends>jboss.jca:name=TranstoolDS,service=LocalTxCM</depends>
<depends>jboss.jca:name=TranstoolDS,service=ManagedConnectionFactory</depends>
<depends>jboss.jca:name=TranstoolDS,service=ManagedConnectionPool</depends>
</jboss-web>

When i change the ds.xml-File Jboss tries to redeploy the war-file, but
finishes with an exception (stacktrace is appended at the end):

So i got to have a look to org/jboss/web/WebModule.java and found the lines 63-71

63: public synchronized void startModule()
64: throws DeploymentException
65:

{ 66: // Get the war URL 67: URL warURL = di.localUrl != null ? di.localUrl : di.url; 68: WebApplication webApp = deployer.start(di); 69: di.context.put(AbstractWebContainer.WEB_APP, webApp); 70: container.addDeployedApp(warURL, webApp); 71: }

this.di becomes null on destroy in the following piece of code (line 54-59)

54: protected void destroyService()
55:

{ 56: this.di = null; 57: this.container = null; 58: this.deployer = null; 59: }

So i commented out the lines 56-58

54: protected void destroyService()
55:

{ 56:// this.di = null; 57:// this.container = null; 58:// this.deployer = null; 59: }

and recompile JBoss 4.0.3 RC1. And now, it works like expected!