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Re: Failure to Instantiate DnsContextFactory
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created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/shelleyb">Shelley Baker</a> in <i>JBoss AS7 Development</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/620167#620167">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I found an alternative that is <em>slightly</em> better. I added the <tt>jboss-deployment-structure.xml</tt> file to my EAR's <tt>META-INF</tt> directory, as follows:</p><pre style="margin-top: 1em; background: white;"><jboss-deployment-structure>
    <sub-deployment name="test-web.war">
        <dependencies>
            <module name="deployment.com.sun.jndi.dns" />
        </dependencies>
    </sub-deployment>
    <module name="deployment.com.sun.jndi.dns">
        <dependencies>
            <module name="system" export="false">
                <exports>
                    <include-set>
                        <path name="com/sun/jndi/dns"/>
                    </include-set>
                </exports>
            </module>
        </dependencies>
    </module>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
</pre><p style="margin-top: 1em;">This also worked, in lieu of the manifest entry and custom module in the jboss directory. This is slightly better since it only requires modification to the application, and not also the JBoss modules, but is unfortunate that all applications that use the DnsContextFactory must include this configuration. I'm still looking for suggestions on the most appropriate, recommended approach, particularly if there is a way that we can avoid including more JBoss-specific configuration in our applications.</p></div>
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