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Case

This morning, I tried to redeploy an EAR on a WebLogic 9.2, using Maven 2 and a classical deployment profile. I got this issue:

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Error executing ant tasks

Embedded error: The following error occurred while executing this line:
(...)
weblogic.deploy.api.internal.utils.DeployerHelperException: The source 'C:\DOCUME~1\myLogin\LOCALS~1\Temp\myApplication-ear.ear' for the application 'my-application-ear' could not be loaded to the server 'http://myServer:1234/bea_wls_deployment_internal/DeploymentService'.
Response: '403: Forbidden' for url: 'http://myServer:1234/bea_wls_deployment_internal/DeploymentService'

Yesterday, I got a similar error when I launched a mvn tomcat:deploy to deploy a WAR on a Tomcat 6.0 server:

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Cannot invoke Tomcat manager

Embedded error: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://myServer:3210/manager/deploy?path=%2FmyWebArchive&war=&update=true

Quick Fix

Running Maven2 in offline line, ie adding the option "-o", allows me to redeploy both the EAR on WebLogic and the WAR on Tomcat.
eg: mvn tomcat:deploy -o
I keep on investigating on this matter. I think there is an issue on the DNS. Indeed, when I deploy locally to my own machine myServer (ie with its network name), this error is raised, but when I deploy to localhost the build is successful.