Seam Validator and components from components.xml

[cpopetz]

Hi,

If a component in an EJB project injects a component that is described in the war project's components.xml, it works fine at runtime, but I get "Uknown context variable name" in the IDE.

Is there a way to make the EJB project realize that it should look in the war project for the components.xml? The "seam.parent.project" property is set correctly in org.jboss.tools.seam.core.prefs.

Is this just a bug?

[maxandersen]

its a chicken and egg problem.

Seam works with a global context, but projects in eclipse is (which is correct in my opinion) working with a proper dependency between the projects.

What should be done is that the ejb specific settings should be done in a components.xml local for the ejb imo.

[cpopetz]

Ok, but for example, your SMPC in your components.xml shouldn't be specified in multiple components.xml, but it may be injected all over the ear(*), in different EJB modules. So if the validator is going to be useful, it has to look in other projects for components, yes?

(*) This is the only case I know of where injecting something "all over your ear" is a good idea :)

[maxandersen]

maybe i'm reading it wrong...but if the SMPC configuration were put in ejb/META-INF/components.xml wouldn't everything not just work ?