putting Web Beans and Seam core libs in server-default-lib directory

[gonorrhea]

Side note: I'm noticing in my jboss-5.0.1.GA extraction that there are no files in the server/default/lib or server/web/lib directories.  My JBoss 4.3 EAP extraction has lots of libs in the server/default/lib directory (as has been the case with JBoss AS since at least 3.x).

So one of the updates to JBoss AS 5 when setting up Web Beans RI is the following additional directory:

/jboss-5.0.1.GA/server/default/deployers/webbeans.deployer

This folder includes the webbeans-core.jar, etc.

There are no webbeans libs in this deployment, for example: webbeans-numberguess.war

So with Seam 2.x apps, the Seam core libs are typically bundled into the EAR and the EAR is copied to server/xxx/deploy directory for deployment.

Ultimately, where will the webbeans-core.jar and related API/support libs be required to reside in JBoss AS 5?

Also, can we literally copy the webbeans libs and Seam libs into the server/default/lib directory as these libs are common to all Seam 2.x and WebBeans RI apps??

[pmuir]

They should go where the install script puts them, bizarrely enough ;-)

A deployer is a new concept in JBoss 5, it replaces the server/default/lib dir, it's shared betweeen all apps.

[nickarls]

And there might be support for using custom Web Bean jars included with the WAR at some point(?)

[pmuir]

Probably not in an AS that embeds Web Beans, no. You can always do this in a servlet container like Tomcat.