Strict location check of persistence.xml deployments ---------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-217 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-217 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Enhancement Components: JPA / Hibernate Reporter: Bartosz Baranowski Priority: Minor Fix For: Awaiting Volunteers As of: https://github.com/jbossas/jboss-as/commit/38815193011fba624170a7d938118e... it is possible to deploy persistence.xml from invalid location: As per JPA spec(https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS71/JPA+Reference+Guide), valid locations are: - an EJB-JAR file - the WEB-INF/classes directory of a WAR file - a jar file in the WEB-INF/lib directory of a WAR file - a jar file in the EAR library directory - an application client jar file