Plugin hotdeployment fails on WAS when auto.deploy.websphere.dest.dir does not exist

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 6.1.1 CE GA2, 6.1.20 EE GA2
• Fix Version/s: 6.1.30 EE GA3, 6.2.0 CE M6
• Component/s: Environments, Environments > App Servers
• Labels:
  • QA-R
  • QA-TP
• Environment: Websphere
• Branch Version/s:
  6.1.x
• Backported to Branch:
  Committed
• Story Points: 5
• Git Pull Request: https://github.com/brianchandotcom/liferay-portal/pull/11715

When ${auto.deploy.websphere.dest.dir} folder does not exist, plugin deployment fails with the following exception:

[6/12/13 10:42:04:313 GMT] 00000032 SystemOut     O   Building war: D:\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\liferay\wsadmin-deploy\batman-portlet.war
[6/12/13 10:42:04:315 GMT] 00000032 SystemOut     O 10:42:04,315 ERROR [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:218] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: Problem creating war: D:\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\liferay\wsadmin-deploy\batman-portlet.war (The system cannot find the path specified.) (and the archive is probably corrupt but I could not delete it)
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: Problem creating war: D:\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\liferay\wsadmin-deploy\batman-portlet.war (The system cannot find the path specified.) (and the archive is probably corrupt but I could not delete it)
	at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:209)
	at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.autoDeploy(ThreadSafeAutoDeployer.java:36)
	at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.PortletAutoDeployListener.deploy(PortletAutoDeployListener.java:88)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.deploy(AutoDeployDir.java:50)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.processFile(AutoDeployDir.java:209)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:267)
	at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:54)
Caused by: Problem creating war: D:\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\liferay\wsadmin-deploy\batman-portlet.war (The system cannot find the path specified.) (and the archive is probably corrupt but I could not delete it)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip.executeMain(Zip.java:573)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip.execute(Zip.java:350)
	at com.liferay.util.ant.WarTask.war(WarTask.java:48)
	at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployDirectory(BaseDeployer.java:799)
	at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:1059)
	at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:991)
	at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:206)
	... 6 more
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\IBM\WebSphere7\AppServer\profiles\liferay\wsadmin-deploy\batman-portlet.war (The system cannot find the path specified.)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
	at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream.<init>(ZipOutputStream.java:249)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Zip.executeMain(Zip.java:467)
	... 12 more

Lets fix this simple annoyance