Spring Boot + WEB-INF
Maybe a little bit late, but in order to put your xml file inside WEB-INF, if you are using Maven, the correct placement will be:
src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/jboss-deployment-structure.xml
For a regular maven project if you need to have a structure of
target/WEB-INF/blabla.xml then you should put
src/main/resources/WEB-INF/blabla.xmlI hope that will help.
I had the same problem working with the Spring boot projects.
This kind of project usually comes with embedded modules like Apache tomcat and prepared for use Spring annotations.
For change configurations and make your web application easily configurable I suggest to create from scratch. See this url for more information:
http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/
In my case I changed to:
<dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId> <version>${spring.version}</version> </dependency>and I create my own structure.