[cdi-dev] [JBoss JIRA] (CDI-218) Honor WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to activate WEB-INF/classes a bean archive

[jaikiran pai (JIRA)]

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jaikiran pai commented on CDI-218:
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I have been reading Pete's blog about CDI 1.1 Public review draft of the spec and noticed this JIRA and the changes being proposed. FWIW, in Java EE6, it's only JPA which has been inconsistent on where the deployment descriptor (persistence.xml) is expected to be placed. It expects it to be under .war/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF. The EJB 3.1 spec (just like CDI 1.0 spec) expects ejb-jar.xml to be under .war/WEB-INF folder. So I'm not sure if allowing beans.xml in .war/WEB-INF/classes/META-INF is going to help much in fixing that inconsistency or if it's going to make it a bit more inconsistent.

                
> Honor WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml to activate WEB-INF/classes a bean archive
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>
>                 Key: CDI-218
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/CDI-218
>             Project: CDI Specification Issues
>          Issue Type: Clarification
>          Components: Packaging and Deployment
>            Reporter: Dan Allen
>            Assignee: Pete Muir
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.1.PRD
>
>
> Chapter 12.1 specifies that beans.xml must be in the WEB-INF directory of a web archive to activate the WEB-INF/classes directory of that war as a bean archive (and thus make java:comp/BeanManager visible to the web app).
> However, many developers find this location both confusing and inconvenient at times. The instinct of many developers is to put the beans.xml in WEB-INF/classes/META-INF since that follows the convention that applies to library jars.
> Obviously, we cannot break backwards compatibility. Therefore, this issue proposes to honor either location in the war:
> - WEB-INF/beans.xml
> - WEB-INF/classes/META-INF/beans.xml
> If both files are present, the WEB-INF/beans.xml should take precedence and a warning is recommended. (Merging them is not likely the behavior that a developer would want).

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