Bartosz Baranowski created AS7-4873: --------------------------------------- Summary: Strict location check of persistence.xml deployments Key: AS7-4873 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-4873 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Enhancement Affects Versions: 7.1.2.Final (EAP) Reporter: Bartosz Baranowski Priority: Minor Fix For: 7.2.0.Alpha1 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 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira