[jboss-as7-dev] META-INF directory in dependency modules

[David M. Lloyd]

On 04/19/2011 09:43 AM, Marius Bogoevici wrote:
>
>
> On 11-04-19 09:58 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> It can actually. Modules export all of their paths (including META-INF)
>> by default. The filtering happens on the import side because the filter
>> sequence for a module import contains some default entries at the end
>> which exclude META-INF. Now if you want to *include* some subpath of
>> META-INF, you may add an inclusive import filter which will override the
>> default exclusion. Like this:
>>
>> ...
>> <dependencies>
>> <module name="org.foo.bar">
>> <imports>
>> <include path="META-INF/mydirectory"/>
>> ...
>> </imports>
>> </module>
>> ...
>> </dependencies>
>> Right now we do not have support for filtering individual resource files
>> within a directory, but that is forthcoming [1].
>>
>> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/MODULES-69
> I guess this means that the module definition above is applicable only
> for paths (directories), but not individual files.
>
> Will this be customizable in a deployment too, either via MANIFEST.MF,
> or using a module definition for a deployment (are there some guidelines
> on how can that can be done, except for customizing MANIFEST.MF)?

Yes using MANIFEST.MF, no using a module definition but yes using 
jboss-deployment-structure.xml (theoretically, I don't know if that 
support is there yet).

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