Don't understand jboss-deployment-structure.xml...
tepih78 Mar 13, 2012 7:53 AMHi,
I am running Jboss 7.1 for trial but come from WebSphere world.
I am trying to undestand deployment structure file.
I added some comments into it for discussion sake...
<jboss-deployment-structure>
<!-- as I understood, this should make classes from web module 1 see classes in web module 2 if both are in same EAR -->
<!-- but I feel that there is no difference in setting this to true or false -->
<ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>
<!-- what module is afffected by settings in this section: all sub modules of EAR or what.. this is very unclear to me...->
<deployment>
<exclusions>
<!-- I want to use my own log4j configuration and had to do this to disable log4j... but It's not enough... I had to to it in each subdeployments too...
did I had to define this here at all then? -->
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclusions>
<dependencies>
<!-- I need xerces in my app, I don't deploy myown xerces.jar in EAR so I depend on container to provide... I figured that if I add this here that
it will be enough for all web modules to see xerces... but I think not. All subdeployments have to define this too -->
<module name="org.apache.xerces" />
<module name="org.apache.xalan" />
</dependencies>
<resources>
</resources>
</deployment>
<sub-deployment name="A.war">
<exclusions>
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclusions>
<dependencies>
<module name="org.apache.xerces" />
<module name="org.apache.xalan" />
<module name="deployment.A.ear.C.war" />
</dependencies>
</sub-deployment>
<sub-deployment name="B.war">
<exclusions>
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclusions>
<dependencies>
<module name="org.apache.xerces" />
<module name="org.apache.xalan" />
<module name="A.ear.A.war" />
<module name="A.ear.C.war" />
</dependencies>
</sub-deployment>
<sub-deployment name="C.war">
<exclusions>
<module name="org.apache.log4j" />
</exclusions>
<dependencies>
<module name="org.apache.xerces" />
<module name="org.apache.xalan" />
</dependencies>
</sub-deployment>
</jboss-deployment-structure>
So, in my A.ear with the following apps:
A.war (in runtime, depends on classes from C.war)
B.war (in runtime depends on A.war and C.war)
C.war
Things do work, but I wonder if I did something extra that I didn't have to as I don't fully understand jboss-deployment-structure.xml effects...
Any thoughts?
Thanks!