it looks like there is a doc bug.
You can read through the 'man page' for the deploy command here....
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7701/deploy-1?l=en&a=view
Your exploded war can be in a directory with ANY name.
There is a --type option to clarify what kind of module is being deployed... that I have never had to use when I have directory deployed a web app.
You will need to use the --name option to make the name of your modules, since they all would end up getting called webapp (the name of the "archive's" root directory)
vbk
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