[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-5172) cannot define service activator in WAR META-INF, must be in WAR WEB-INF/classes/META-INF

[John Mazzitelli (JIRA)]

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John Mazzitelli commented on AS7-5172:
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> Can you point which EE spec document says something about META-INF being a location for classes?
> If it's not a standard one, then this issue shouldn't be fixed.

This issue isn't to allow *classes* to be loadable from within META-INF. Rather, the file "services/org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceActivator" under META-INF is not being picked up from within a WAR. At least, that's the issue that I had which caused me to write this JIRA. It didn't involve Java classes per-se.
                
> cannot define service activator in WAR META-INF, must be in WAR WEB-INF/classes/META-INF
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>                 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
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: AS7-5172-fix.diff, AS7-5172-testcase.diff, ManagementService.java
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> (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.

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