Seam Servlet doesn't automatically register its servlet components on Tomcat 7

[mkouba]

Seam Servlet module does not automatically register its servlet components on servlet 3.0 container Tomcat 7. Most probably because of relative ordering in its web-fragment.xml:

<ordering>
<after>
<name>WeldServlet</name>
</after>
<before>
<others/>
</before>
</ordering>

According to https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-718 stable version of weld has no web-fragment.xml yet. Tomcat probably skips registering, because WeldServlet does not exist. I'm not sure whether it's issue of Tomcat or Seam. Tried to find out in Servlet Specification with no success. At the moment it's necessary to setup components manually.

[dan.j.allen]

I'm going to remove this ordering reference. It really frustrates me that that Servlet 3.0 spec doesn't make it clear that this should be allowed. The relative ordering is pretty much useless without optional references. But such is life.

Fixed by SEAMSERVLET-29.

[dan.j.allen]

I've filed an issue in GlassFish to allow the web fragment references to be optional.

GLASSFISH-16201

Could you file a similar issue with Tomcat 7?

[dan.j.allen]

The GlassFish issue is now resolved. However, we won't re-enable the reference until Weld Servlet actually has a web fragment :)