"Could not find meta data META-INF/ra.xml" message deploying rar in JBoss

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Resource adapter fails to deploy.

  • The following message occurs in the server.log :

    ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:$JBOSS_HOME/server/$JBOSS_PROFILE/deploy/test.rar
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not find meta data META-INF/ra.xml for deployment file:$JBOSS_HOME/server/$JBOSS_PROFILE/deploy/test.rar

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)

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