cannot define service activator in WAR META-INF, must be in WAR WEB-INF/classes/META-INF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-5172 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-5172 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 7.1.1.Final Reporter: John Mazzitelli Assignee: James Livingston Priority: Minor Fix For: 7.2.0.Alpha1 Attachments: AS7-5172-fix.diff, AS7-5172-testcase.diff, ManagementService.java (note: I talked to dmlloyed on this in #jboss-as7 - he thinks its a bug, hence why I am filing this JIRA) I have a WAR. I want it to have a service activator in it (I want it to install an MSC service). So, in the WAR's META-INF directory, I create a "services/org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceActivator" file with the appropriate content. The service fails to activate. However, if I put that same META-INF content in my WAR's WEB-INF/classes directory (that is, my WAR has a WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services/org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceActivator), my service activates fine. I will attach a .war file that you can use to test this. To see what I'm taking about, take the attached war and explode it inside the standalone/deployments directory in AS 7.1.1.Final. Run the app server - you will see in the output this: INFO [stdout] (MSC service thread 1-5) $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ SERVICE ACTIVATING! (this output comes from my ServiceActivator's activate() method - it does a System.out.println as soon as activate() is entered). This shows the WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services being honored. Now shutdown the app server, cd to the deployments directory and cd down into the exploded war directory. Now move that services/ content directly up to the WAR's own META-INF directory: mv WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services META-INF/ Now run the app server again. Notice you do NOT see the "SERVICE ACTIVATING" message. So it appears the WAR's META-INF/services is ignored when looking for service activators, but when the same services marker file is in WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/services, it works fine.