From: Marina Vatkina <marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:00:02 -0800

Closed.

-marina

Antonio Goncalves wrote:
> I'm still in favour of changing the entire packaging (a single
> packaging, no more war/ear distinction...) but will wait for Java
> Modules.
>
> So *no* for having jars into EJB modules and hoping that Java EE 8
> will solve most of the container/packaging issues
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:19, Carlo de Wolf <cdewolf_at_redhat.com
> <mailto:cdewolf_at_redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Sorry for not being explicit. ;-)
>
> I say no. Let's not <sarcasm>fix</sarcasm> this is in the spec.
>
> Carlo
>
>
> On 02/16/2012 10:11 AM, Pete Muir wrote:
>
> So far I'm unconvinced, so no.
>
> On 16 February 2012 08:49, Carlo de Wolf<cdewolf_at_redhat.com
> <mailto:cdewolf_at_redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> I fail to see the advantage over packaging an ear.
> Or is this an "our build tool sucks, let's 'fix' the
> specification" bit?
>
> Carlo
>
>
> On 02/16/2012 12:54 AM, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>
> Experts,
>
> I'd like to close on this item. Please vote yes or no.
> If you'd rather
> continue the discussion, feel free to do so as well.
>
> thanks,
> -marina
>
> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>
> We did see users who had their EJB module packaged
> with jars inside a jar
> and were surprised it's not supported.
>
> -marina
>
> Pete Muir wrote:
>
> Do we actually have any users who've asked for
> this? Otherwise, I think
> it's unnecessary.
>
> On 9 Feb 2012, at 01:14, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>
>
> Experts,
>
> As you know, while it's easy to package a
> library into a .war file or a
> .ear archive, there is no easy way to do
> the same for a stand-alone EJB
> module in a portable way. The only current
> option is to use a reference by
> adding a Class-Path attribute to the
> Manifest file of the EJB .jar file (or
> another referenced archive) but this is
> not portable as it requires to place
> referenced library in the specific
> location of the application server file
> system (in case that .jar file is not used
> from its original location).
>
> Do you thing the EJB spec should allow an
> EJB .jar file to have a lib/
> directory inside it? If yes, will there be
> any restrictions that we will
> need to address?
>
> Thank you,
> -marina
>
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>
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