[jboss-as7-dev] Deploy resource adapter as subdeployment of an ear without an application.xml

[Kabir Khan]

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On 7 Nov 2011, at 10:39, Panzer, Robert wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I am quite new to JBoss 7 and its architecture. I was using JBoss 4.0.5 and 5.1 for the last couple of years.
>  
> Now I want to switch to JBoss 7 and tried to deploy an ear file containing a resource adapter.
> There is no application.xml in the ear file.
>  
> Unfortunately the server does not pay any attention to the rar during deployment and I did not know how to define the connection factories other than writing an ironjacamar.xml and placing it in the rar.
>  
> On JBoss 4/5 this worked without any problems by defining the connector-module inside the application.xml and placing a –ra.xml file in the deploy/ folder. But I do not want to write down this unnecessary stuff and try to live without an application.xml at all.
>  
> Is there anything I have missed in the documentation?
>  
> I debugged the code and was able to get the resource adapter deployed by modifying the EarStructureProcessor on the current master. (Just pulled this morning.)
> It simply adds “.rar” to the list of well know subdeployment file extensions and creates a subdeployment for a resource adapter in case no ear meta data is present.
>  
> I attached the necessary patches. (I am not really firm with git yet, so please excuse any nonsense.)
>  
> What is your opinion on this?
> Any comments are welcome!
>  
> Kind regards,
> Robert
>  
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