[jboss-dev] Re: your opinion on an EAR/JBoss issue (maven ear plugin)

[Adrian]

AFAIK, this will actually work, but I don't think it is supposed to?

JBoss will only deploy stuff that is listed in application.xml or
jboss-app.xml but it doesn't actually check that the listed
deployment matches the specified type.

Only the <web/> (context-root) and <java/> (potentially
could be added to some available list of client applications
for download) tags have any real semantics assocation with them.

e.g. this would probably also work :-)

<application>
   <module>
      <web><web-uri>mydatasource-ds.xml</web-uri></web>
   </module>
</application>

I'd imagine we will probably make this more strict in some future
release. 

So for future compatibility, the correct mechanism for non-spec
deployments is to add a META-INF/jboss-app.xml

<jboss-app>
   <module>
      <service>mydatasource-ds.xml</service>
   </module>
</jboss-app>

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 09:39 -0700, Scott M Stark wrote:
> No, this requires a jboss-app.xml descriptor. The ear application.xml
> java module type is only for app client jars. It does also update the
> ear classpath, but that is a questionable feature.
> 
> Ian Springer wrote:
> > Stephane,
> > 
> > This isn't my area of expertise. I'm forwarding to the JBoss development
> > list. Can someone help out Stephane?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ian
> > 
> > Stephane Nicoll wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd like your opinion on an issue to confirm this is officially
> >> supported by JBoss.
> >>
> >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEAR-52
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Stéphane
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