[seam-dev] automatic loading of persistence units in JBoss AS 5

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:07:31 +0100, Ales Justin <ales.justin at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> It depends if you need any other metadata file from that META-INF  
> directory.
>
> If no, then simply exclude that META-INF as metadata path.
>
> If yes, I currently cannot see how we can handle that,
> unless you remove certain deployer.
> How do others handle this?
> As this is contradiction, since you expect for all other things to work  
> out-of-the-box,
> but not this one + you're not willing to change core configuration.
> Beats me. :-)

AS 4.x did not do this, so it was never an issue before - hence looking  
for ways
to have those apps still be able to deploy without a lot of changes.

We are not saying the default is bad, just that we would like to control  
it for
issues listed.

/max

>
> Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>> Could you give me an example on how to use jboss-structure.xml to have  
>> it not pick-up META-INF/persistence.xml even if it is there
>> (i.e. to allow a thirdparty library pick it up) ?
>>  /max
>>
>>>> We should fix AS 5 to have something that can allow it to be disabled  
>>>> (preferably
>>>> without having to change AS 5 structure deployers as Ales suggest)
>>>
>>> See my #4 --> jboss-structure.xml.
>>> Changing structure deployers was more severe option. ;-)
>>>
>>> jboss-structure.xml is non invasive,
>>> it will work on JBossAS, but won't interfere with other environments.
>>>
>>> Or what more do you want? :-)
>>



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/max