URLDeploymentScanner doesn't like exploded war files

SourceForge Submitter: tstanczak .
It seem to be not possible to deploy exploded war files
(that is directories with the extension "war") in JBoss
3.2.* (tested in 3.2.1, but the Scanner looks same in
3.2.2).

The parent directory of my webapp is outside of the
JBoss directore tree, because of our in-house policies it
must be so. Same for using exploded webapps instead
of zipped war files.

I have tried to use following in the URLs node:

with any of

file:../../applications/se900.war
/C:/java/jboss321/applications/se900.war
file:C:/java/jboss321/applications/se900.war

JBoss finds the application, but Tomcat fails to deploy
with "Doc base must point to a WAR file". Tomcat is
right, it is a directory and not a war file.

with

file:C:/java/jboss321/applications/se900.war/

JBoss tries to deploy the whole content of the
se900.war directory, including all JSPs!!!

Looks like catch 22, or am I missing something?