Vince,
Thinking more about it... if the user doesn't want/need to package the ejbs,
s/he can keep them under WEB-INF/classes. Is it a problem for an IDE?
thanks,
-marina
Vince Kraemer wrote:
> Tim Quinn wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I did not notice the original posting, Vince.
>>
>> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think we explode jars in the lib directory (either in an ear
>>> or a war).
>>
>> Marina is correct; currently neither v2 nor v3 prelude expands library
>> JARs, nor does it expect them to be pre-expanded for directory
>> deployment.
>
>
> OK.
>
>>
>> The guiding principle - at least up to now - is to expand submodules
>> nested within EARs (such as WARs, EJBs, etc.) but to leave other JARs
>> alone.
>
>
> Right.... and that is what generated the question.... It looks like Java
> EE 6 blurs the "line" between a WAR and an EAR. I am just trying to see
> how that blurring translates from spec into a development environment.
>
>>
>> I am not sure if much thinking has gone into whether it makes sense to
>> treat EJB JARs inside a WAR as a "submodule" in the same sense, at
>> least as far as directory deployment is concerned. One possible
>> wrinkle is that, historically, the submodule JAR has been expanded
>> into a directory which resides in the same place as the original JAR
>> file. If v3 followed that approach then, for the EJB-in-WAR case, the
>> directory structure would change from this:
>>
>> WEB-INF/lib/myejbs.jar
>>
>> to this
>>
>> WEB-INF/lib/myejbs_jar/x/y/z.class (or something like that)
>>
>> and so now we have broken the rule that items in WEB-INF/lib are JARs.
>>
>> There might be other changes in how archives are handled in v3 that
>> might open the door to doing something with this. I like the idea of
>> avoiding JARring up the EJBs in the development environment if it's
>> avoidable but I think this needs more careful thought than I've been
>> able to give to it here.
>
>
> I was pretty sure this wasn't a "worked" detail at this this point...
> but I was willing to be wrong.
>
>>
>> How about opening an enhancement request?
>
>
> Me: (Slaps forhead) I coulda hada V8!
>
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6620
>
> vbk
>
>
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