Install Packaging

[tom_goring]

Hi,

I've deployed my application as a packaged EAR and have noticed that my framework overridden components are not getting installed.

During development I have been deploying these (exploded)to:

MY-EAR.ear/MY-WAR.war/WEB-INF/dev

And for deployment under (zipped) under:

MY-EAR.ear/MY-WAR.jar

Here is one that is not being installed:

@Scope(ScopeType.STATELESS)
@BypassInterceptors
@Name("org.jboss.seam.faces.renderer")
@AutoCreate
@Install(precedence = Install.APPLICATION)
public class DBFaceletsRenderer extends FaceletsRenderer {
..
}

All my other components (without any @Install) are working fine.

Any ideas?

[tom_goring]

Hi,

Ok I've got a little further with this.

The problem is that I'm trying to override a seam-ui.jar component (which lives in the WAR lib dir).  Those classes are not in the classpath of the default jar located in the EAR.  I was getting away with it due to seam hot deploy dev dir.

I guess the seam deployer was skipping my class as the base class was not in the classpath.

So my question is now how should I define these WAR seam components? 
Copy them into the WEB-INF/classes dir and include a seam.properties there ? Create a new jar in the WEB-INF lib dir ?

Thanks

Tom

[tom_goring]

Hi,

I got this working by deploying those particular classes to WEB-INF/classes and adding a seam.properties there.

So, if you want to override a component from seam-ui.jar you need to make sure it gets packaged in the war. 

It would have been nice to get a class not found when the application started up ... would have saved some time !

[pmuir]

Unless you put a seam.properties in the root of the archive/classpath you want scanning, Seam won't even look at the archive for classes - so it don't get as far as throwing a CNFE. This is an optimisation for startup so that Seam doesn't have to scan every archive in the app server!