Once the deployment of a ear on JBOSS AS 4.2.2.AG has failed, the JMX method MainDeployer.listDeployed() keeps indicating that the deployment of the ear has failed, even when a later deployment of the fixed component succeeds.

Steps to reproduce
1. Start 4.2.2
2. Take EJB3Trail.ear and take out the application.xml file.
3. Deploy the ear. You get an exception and a failure.

Exception:
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: No META-INF/application.xml found

Inside the MailDeployer.listDeployed() you see:
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@6b37e2c9

{ url=file:/root/jboss/4.2.2/build/output/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/EJB3Trail.ear/ }

deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@e7d53
status: null
state: FAILED
watch: file:/root/jboss/4.2.2/build/output/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/EJB3Trail.ear/
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1210100865412
lastModified: 1210099024000
mbeans:

4. delete the ear in the deploy directory(complete undeploy)
5. Fix the ear by putting the application.xml back into the ear
6. Copy the ear back into the deploy directory
7. Look in the JMX console under MainDeployer.listDeployed
you will see that the state has not been updated...
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@6b37e2c9

{ url=file:/root/jboss/4.2.2/build/output/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/EJB3Trail.ear/ }

deployer: org.jboss.deployment.EARDeployer@e7d53
status: null
state: FAILED
watch: file:/root/jboss/4.2.2/build/output/jboss-4.2.2.GA/server/default/deploy/EJB3Trail.ear/
altDD: null
lastDeployed: 1210100865412
lastModified: 1210099024000
mbeans:

But now all the other sub deployments in the ear appear.

This also seems to happen for war files and other deployments.