You can use the autodeploy mechanism in glassfish to do similar things:
1. Go to the autodeploy directory (GF_INSTALL/domains/domain1/autodeploy)
2. Create a soft link to your application under this directory, for example:
hzhang_at_nmr:~/files/sun/appserver/domains/domain1/autodeploy$ ln -s /home/hzhang/deployment/apps/webapps-simple.war webapps-simple.war
hzhang_at_nmr:~/files/sun/appserver/domains/domain1/autodeploy$ ls
webapps-simple.war
3. Your can then go to the logs directory (domains/domain1/logs) and look at server.log, the log shows the application was successfully deployed.
I tried the above on my linux box (Ubuntu). Note the softlink name could be a different name than the original application, but it needs to have the correct file extension for the autodeployer to recognize.
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