Inner classes are not scanned by deployment strategy

[vladimir.kovalyuk]

Inner classes are not scanned by the standard deployment strategy.
However inner entity classes are understood by for instance JPA.

[norman]

Are you sure?  I'm pretty sure we have inner classes as components in the test suite.

[vladimir.kovalyuk]

Yep, I'm sure.
I didn't investigate this deeply though.

public class MyDeploymentHandler extends AbstractClassDeploymentHandler {

     private static final LogProvider log = Logging.getLogProvider(MyDeploymentHandler.class);
     public static final String NAME = MyDeploymentHandler.class.getName();

     private static Set<Class<? extends Annotation>> classAnnotations = new HashSet<Class<? extends Annotation>>();

     private static ClassDeploymentMetadata metadata;

     static {
          classAnnotations.add(Entity.class);
          classAnnotations.add(MappedSuperclass.class);
          classAnnotations.add(Embeddable.class);
          metadata = new ClassDeploymentMetadata() {

               @Override
               public Set<Class<? extends Annotation>> getClassAnnotatedWith() {
                    return classAnnotations;
               }

               @Override
               public String getFileNameSuffix() {
                    return null;
               }

          };

     }

        @Override
     public ClassDeploymentMetadata getMetadata() {
          return metadata;
     }
     
     @Override
     public String getName() {
          return NAME;
     }

     @Override
     public void postProcess(ClassLoader classLoader) {
          for (ClassDescriptor classDescriptor : getClasses()) {
               Class<?> klass = classDescriptor.getClazz();
               ... inner classes don't come here ...
          }
     }

}