Symbolic links within web applications do not work

Symbolic Linking under exploded web-apps to files and/or directories outside the web-app do not work.

Here is what I tried under an exploded war:
<jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_8_0.xsd"
version="8.0">
<symbolic-linking-enabled>true</symbolic-linking-enabled>
</jboss-web>

Does not follow links and results in a 404.

HTTP/?.? 404 Not Found
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