question about webbeans-ri.jar and its classloader contract

[bluewolf]

Are there any documents or e-mail archives that explain(or discuss) ...
"you must insert the webbeans-ri.jar into the applications isolated classloader."?

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[pmuir]

Not really, it's quite straightforward really. Most servers implement (either by default or optional) a hierarchical classloading structure, Current Web Beans requires that the webbeans-core.jar is placed into the applications classloader, not a classloader that is shared between multiple applications. For example, in Tomcat, you can do this by placing the JAR in WEB-INF/lib.

We are working on removing this restriction at the moment (I'm not sure whether the contribution will make it into the next release, but certainly by the 1.0.0 release).