Integration with SpringServletContainerInitializer incorrect ------------------------------------------------------------ Key: AS7-3892 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3892 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Server, Web Affects Versions: 7.0.2.Final, 7.1.0.Final Reporter: Martin Vanek Assignee: Jason Greene Fix For: 7.1.1.Final Recently I have tried to install simple Spring 3.1 MVC application without web.xml to jboss 7.0.2. The context failed to load, only message indicating the something is wrong is from spring: INFO [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/test]] (MSC service thread 1-3) No Spring WebApplicationInitializer types detected on classpath. I have tried to investigate the problem and it seems that problem is in class org.jboss.as.web.deployment.ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor. The reason is that spring uses interface WebApplicationInitializer in @HandlesTypes annotation and the method processHandlesType of class ServletContainerInitializerDeploymentProcessor scans only subclasses. I guess Spring guys did not nothing wrong in implementation of the ServletContainerInitializer so I think it is the problem of JBoss. @HandlesTypes(WebApplicationInitializer.class) public class SpringServletContainerInitializer implements ServletContainerInitializer { .... } I guess the processHandlesType method has to be changed something like this. private Set<ClassInfo> processHandlesType(DotName typeName, Class<?> type, CompositeIndex index) throws DeploymentUnitProcessingException { Set<ClassInfo> classes = new HashSet<ClassInfo>(); if (type.isAnnotation()) { ..... } else { classes.addAll(index.getAllKnownSubclasses(typeName)); classes.addAll(index.getAllKnownImplementors(typeName)); } }