[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-1928) Allow deployments to get access to the META-INF folder of their dependency module

Allow deployments to get access to the META-INF folder of their dependency module --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-1928 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1928 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Feature Request Affects Versions: 7.1.0.Alpha1 Reporter: Marius Bogoevici Assignee: Stuart Douglas Fix For: 7.1.0.Final Attachments: jboss-access-meta-inf.zip, modular-app.META-INF.not.accessible.zip Currently there is absolutely no mechanism (outside of manipulating dependencies programmatically through a subsystem) for deployments to get access to some META-INF/xyz files from a module that they declare as a dependency, except are in META-INF/services. This is a serious impediment when considering the installation of third party libraries as shared libraries (modules) in JBoss AS. Some frameworks may rely upon locating internal descriptors in META-INF, and if the libraries are installed as modules, the descriptors are not accessible to the framework. Essentially, there is no way of accessing resources under META-INF unless they are either services, or the library is packaged in the deployment.