[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JBWEB-279) Overlays do not work as expected

[Mustafa Musaji (JIRA)]

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Mustafa Musaji commented on JBWEB-279:
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[~rmaucher] I don't think overlays has anything to do with the spec. This is when you are a deploy to JBoss and yes we should follow the spec to look for resources as stated in your first comment. In addition to the spec, we allow overlays to be included and this is as [~tfonteyn] points out, is a JBoss specific feature. With the overlays we blatently do one thing via CLI and another thing with jboss-web.xml.


                
> Overlays do not work as expected
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>
>                 Key: JBWEB-279
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBWEB-279
>             Project: JBoss Web
>          Issue Type: Bug
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: JBossWeb-7.2.1.GA
>            Reporter: Mustafa Musaji
>            Assignee: Remy Maucherat
>         Attachments: fix.proposal.txt
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> It is expected that the <overlay> element in jboss-web.xml has the same outcome as the overlay feature in the CLI: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS72/Deployment+Overlays
> In jboss-web.xml the overlays element is not used to actually overlay existing files but to add files to a deployment. This is confusing and either this should work the same as the CLI or the documentation around the <overlay> element in jboss-web.xml should clearly state this is not the case and that we do not replace artifacts but rather 
> Attached is a proposed patch that fixes this issue.

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