[jboss-dev] JBossAS 5: Using ../..-style paths in application.xml

[Ales Justin]

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On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Kenny MacLeod wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> We are in the process of trying to port our existing applications from 
> EAP 4.3 to EAP 5.0.1.
> 
> Our current sticking point is regarding the way we construct our EARs' 
> application.xml files in theWindows development environment. In order to 
> allow JBoss to load classes directly from the developers' IDE 
> directories, we've been using relative paths in application.xml that 
> point directly at those directories, e.g.
> 
> <application>
>   <module>
>     <java>..\..\..\..\..\..\..\path\to\my.jar</java>
>   </module>
> </application>
> 
> In other words, my.jar isn't actually under the EAR's directory 
> struture, but somewhere else on the filesystem.
> 
> This is a rather dubious practice, but it works without complaint in 
> JBossAS 4. The JBossAS 5 VFS however, doesn't like it at all, since it 
> can't find my.jar physically under the EAR root directory:
> 
> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Child not found my.jar for 
> FileHandler at 27267010[path=Test.ear 
> context=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/ 
> real=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/Test.ear/], 
> available children: [FileHandler at 958828[path=Test.ear/META-INF 
> context=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/ 
> real=file:/D:/dev/workspaces/test/TestEAR/build/jboss/Test.ear/META-INF/]]
>         at org.jboss.virtual.VirtualFile.findChild(VirtualFile.java:472)
> 
> I can understand entirely why it doesn't like it, but I'm trying to 
> convince it otherwise - retaining similarlity to our current envrionment 
> as much as possible is highly disrable to reduce the risk of this migration.
> 
> Can the VFS be manipulated this way?
> 
> Yours hopefully,
> kenny
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