[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-218) Honor WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to activate WEB-INF/classes a bean archive

Wed Jun 13 05:38:04 EDT 2012

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Mark Struberg commented on CDI-218:
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Imo there is no need to change anything. 

> 12.1 Bean archives
> A directory in the JVM classpath is a bean archive if it has 
> a file named beans.xml in the META-INF directory.

WEB-INF/classes is a JVM classpath element as per the Servlet Spec 10.5 'Directory Structure'. Thus no change is needed. 

-1 for a warning btw.

The whole BDA stuff needs clarification anyway, but there is absolutely no question that WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml must get picked up by a CDI container.

> Honor WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to activate WEB-INF/classes a bean archive
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CDI-218
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-218
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>          Components: Packaging and Deployment
>            Reporter: Dan Allen
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Chapter 12.1 specifies that beans.xml must be in the WEB-INF directory of a web archive to activate the WEB-INF/classes directory of that war as a bean archive (and thus make java:comp/BeanManager visible to the web app).
> However, many developers find this location both confusing and inconvenient at times. The instinct of many developers is to put the beans.xml in WEB-INF/classes/META-INF since that follows the convention that applies to library jars.
> Obviously, we cannot break backwards compatibility. Therefore, this issue proposes to honor either location in the war:
> - WEB-INF/beans.xml
> - WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml
> If both files are present, the WEB-INF/beans.xml should take precedence and a warning is recommended. (Merging them is not likely the behavior that a developer would want).

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