Expand WAR or EAR files in jBoss AS 7 in deploy process

[balizeiro]

I'm deploying a WebService project into a jBoss AS7, and everything goes OK except that jBoss doesn't expand my WAR or EAR file.

Already tried copying the file to the "jboss-as-7.1.0.Final\standalone\deployments" folder and using the WebConsole, but in both cases the result was the same.

If I deploy from within Eclipse everything runs OK.

I need it to expand my file because in the application initialization I scan the class directories looking for the correct class to instantiate using reflection.

As a simple test I added a System.out with the execution path

   MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath();

and it returns the following path

   C:\jboss-as-7.1.0.Final\bin\content\ServerEAR.ear\Server.war\WEB-INF\classes

witch doesn't exist. So I did a search for the class name and fount it at

   C:\jboss-as-7.1.0.Final\standalone\tmp\vfs\deployment5a9e98d5c43716c3\Server.war-e31a657d2bc3bd0f\WEB-INF\classes\r30

Isn't it possible to force JBoss to extract the files to the deployment folder? Or how can I get the previous path at run time?

Thanks in advance

[sfcoy]

We use http://code.google.com/p/reflections/ to scan for annotations, but it also supports scanning for subtypes. You might try using that instead as it can scan both exploded and non-exploded deployments.

[benfarr]

Perhaps you could deploy expanded, create a <earfile>.ear directory (works for .war as well) and then create a <earfile>.ear.dodeploy file and this should deploy it.