Auto-register servlet filter in a WAR module of an EAR application in JBoss 7

[discger]

Hello,

is it possible to use the annotation-based auto-registering of Servlet filters in a WAR module of an EAR 6 application? The Filter class is inside a JAR which is located in the lib directory of the EAR.

My problem is, that I would like to use the PrettyFaces library for my web application. The documentation of this library states that it needs no configuration in a JSF 2 environment. In my case this is not true. Only when I configure the filter in the web.xml file the filter is loaded.

Probably this has something to do with class loading and isolation, but after reading the docs multiple times I still do not understand how to fix this (if it is fixable at all).

Is there anyone who can help me? Thanks in advance.

Greetings, Dieter

[sfcoy]

From §8.1 of the Java Servlet Specification Version 3.1:

{quote}In a web application, classes using annotations will have their annotations processed only if they are located in the WEB-INF/classes directory, or if they are packaged in a jar file located in WEB-INF/lib within the application.{quote}

[discger]

Hello Stephen,

thanks for the clarification. After thinking about it - this is rather obvious, because otherwise a lot of unwanted auto-registration would happen in large applications.

Greetings, Dieter