[seam-dev] automatic loading of persistence units in JBoss AS 5

[Dan Allen]

> AS 4.x did not have a lot of things. ;-)

Yep, and I am very glad to see them in JBoss AS 5.

>> We are not saying the default is bad, just that we would like to control
>> it for issues listed.
>
> That's how the default work.
> Argue with the spec, not me.

As far as I know, though I'm open to be proved wrong, according to the
spec the persistence units are only loaded when a reference is found
(either in the descriptor or in an annotation). That's pretty easy to
avoid if you aren't using Java EE components (such as Spring beans or
Seam JavaBeans). So we aren't really arguing with the spec. But then
again, I'm fine with the stuff automatically loading (spares us the
XML soup) but we do need to be able to disable it from within the
application (not by modifying JBoss AS). If you are saying that we can
put this XML file in the application, then that is exactly what I am
looking for. Why not jboss-web.xml or jboss-app.xml?

-Dan

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