Where's the best place to put a resource in an EAR on JBoss AS 7?

[sboscarine]

Hello All,

I am porting an ear from JBoss EAP 4.3 to JBoss AS 7 (and then EAP 6, once it's available).

Our application has multiple wars that need to access a config file.  We use the following syntax:

getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(CONFIG_FILE);

and put the config file in our Maven project under /${ear-project-root}/src/main/application/APP-INF/classes. 

Under src/main/application/META-INF/application.xml, we have:

  <module>
    <java>APP-INF/classes</java>
  </module

This used to work in 4.3, but now I get:

JBAS014775:New missing/unsatisfied dependencies: service jboss.deployment.subunit."app.ear".APP-INF/classes.STRUCTURE (missing) dependents: [service jboss.deployment.unit."app.ear".PARSE]

I can see in the target directory that there's definitely an APP-INF/classes with files in it.

I just need a folder where I can stick configs and have multiple wars access them.  I don't much care where it is.

Any advice on how to create a shared config folder in an ear?

Thanks in advance,

Steven

[sfcoy]

Jar your config file up and place it in the app.ear/lib directory.

Make sure you update to the JEE6 EAR file schema.

app.ear

- META-INF

-- application.xml

- lib

-- config.jar

-- other.jar

-- ...

- web-module.war,

- ejb-module.jar

- etc

Technically, there is no location in an EAR file that is accessible through a classloader. It seems that earlier versions of JBoss allowed this, but it was not spec-compliant behaviour and therefore not portable.