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

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: Clarification Components: Packaging and Deployment Reporter: Dan Allen Assignee: Pete Muir Priority: Minor Fix For: 1.1.PRD 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).