[seam-dev] Issue resolved with JBoss AS 7 CR1 and Seam Social

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tuesday 05 July 2011 01:04 PM, Mark Struberg wrote:
> Jaikiran, _why_ should WEB-INF/classes/META-INF be an invalid directory?
>
> WEB-INF/classes is definitely a valid class filepath. Thus a META-INF inside is valid. This works in every spec and on every EE server I know.
Except for the JPA spec, none of the other specs mention that as a 
metadata location. May be I'm missing some spec? Which other spec uses 
this location? I agree that WEB-INF/classes is a valid class filepath, 
but that doesn't mean that META-INF inside it should be valid, does it?

-Jaikiran
>
> LieGrue,
> strub
>
> --- On Tue, 7/5/11, Jaikiran Pai<jpai at redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: Jaikiran Pai<jpai at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: [seam-dev] Issue resolved with JBoss AS 7 CR1 and Seam Social
>> To: seam-dev at lists.jboss.org
>> Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 5:23 AM
>> Indeed, WEB-INF/classes/META-INF is
>> *not* a valid location for metadata
>> files like this one. WEB-INF/classes/META-INF is meant only
>> for
>> persistence.xml (for some reason the JPA spec mandated this
>> location).
>> The right place for the metadata file is .war/META-INF. AS7
>> infact logs
>> a WARN message if it sees any file other than
>> persistence.xml in the
>> WEB-INF/classes/META-INF folder. I guess you are seeing
>> that WARN in the
>> logs/console, aren't you?
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>> On Tuesday 05 July 2011 01:21 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>>> I would somewhat expect this -
>> WEB-INF/classes/META-INF is not a valid location for
>> beans.xml to activate CDI services for a war - AS6 used to
>> do it as a spec extension. Now, why the libraries are
>> activated for the war, but the actual war isn't on AS7 is
>> quite weird, and one for Stuart to take a look at.
>>>
>>> On 4 Jul 2011, at 20:32, Antoine Sabot-Durand wrote:
>>>
>>>> In /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF
>>>>
>>>> Antoine
>>>>
>>>> Le 4 juil. 2011 à 20:57, Pete Muir a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Sounds odd - in this case where exactly in
>> beans.xml? /META-INF or /WEB-INF/classes/META-INF?
>>>>>
>>>>> But Stuart will know the exact problem ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> On 4 Jul 2011, at 19:51, Antoine Sabot-Durand
>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I understand, but my question was : is it
>> normal when beans.xml is in META-INF that CDI beans are
>> instantiated (i.e. I see Seam Config and Seam Social
>> Extensions log messages) but that those Beans are not
>> available for JSF views. It looks like a bug for me....
>> Should I use seam-beans.xml instead ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Antoine
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le 4 juil. 2011 à 20:30, Pete Muir a
>> écrit :
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I believe Stuart intended to make it
>> work in WEB-INF, but there are a lot of issues with loading
>> it from there, largely because there is no guarantee that
>> the Servlet container has started when Seam Config is
>> started. And Java EE itself offers to API to read from the
>> web root.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is resolved in CDI 1.1 as we
>> offer the ability to read the .xml files as an InputStream
>> using the ProcessModule event on startup.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4 Jul 2011, at 18:21, Jason Porter
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The suggested file is
>> sem-beans.XML in the place you put it, but in short, yes, I
>> believe this is expected.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Jul 4, 2011, at 8:20, Antoine
>> Sabot-Durand<antoine at sabot-durand.net>  
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Just to let you know I managed
>> to run social Web App example with Jboss 7-CR1. The trick
>> was to have 2 beans.xml file. One in META-INF for
>> Seam-Config to read beans configuration and one in WEB-INF
>> in order to having the server exposing CDI bean for JSF
>> view. I drop the Seam-Faces and its dependency
>> Seam-International since I don't need them and they cashed
>> the deployment.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I put config info in
>> WEB-INF/beans.xml, Seam-Config doesn't read them and if I
>> don't put beans.xml in WEB-INF my JSF views don't access CDI
>> bean (LE doesn't trigger any code). I don't know if it's the
>> expected behavior for Seam-Config to read beans.xml only in
>> META-INF....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Antoine SABOT-DURAND
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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