We treat --libraries as installed optional packages (a.k.a. extensions)
as opposed to bundled optional packages. My understanding is that even
extensions are supposed to be scanned for annotations. So, I have to
check the platform spec and get back.
Thanks,
Sahoo
On Monday 27 September 2010 10:05 PM, Hong Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Sahoo
>
> Based on the EE spec, we only need to scan the annotations for the
> classes inside the application package. It will be impractical to scan
> all the classes on the classpath.
>
> EE.8.5.1Deploying a Stand-Alone Java EE Module
> 2. If the deployment descriptor is absent, or is present and is a Java
> EE 5 version descriptor and the metadata-complete attribute is not set
> to true, the deployment tool must examine all the class files in the
> application package.
>
> EE.8.5.2Deploying a Java EE Application
> 4. If the module deployment descriptor is absent, or is present and is
> a Java EE 5 or later version descriptor and the metadata-complete
> attribute is not set to true, the deployment tool must examine all the
> class files in the application package that can be used by the module
> (that is, all class files that are included in the .ear file and can
> be referenced by the module, such as the class files included in the
> module itself, class files referenced from the module by use of a
> Class-Path reference, class files included in the library directory,
> etc.).
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Hong
>
> On 9/27/2010 12:18 PM, Sanjeeb Sahoo wrote:
>> Are libraries mentioned via --libraries not parsed for annotations?
>> They must be, else it's a bug.
>>
>> Sahoo
>> On Monday 27 September 2010 08:56 PM, glassfish_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
>>> This parsing is for scanning annotations inside the library jars.
>>> No, there is currently no option to disable the parsing of the
>>> library jars. If your archive needs to reference a lot of library
>>> jars and you want to avoid parsing of these library jars, you could
>>> reference these library jars through the --libraries option instead
>>> of packagin them inside the archive.
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