We are deploying our spring beans in JBoss through the JBoss Spring deployer which requires that we use only one configuration file, jboss-service.xml.

"alesj" wrote:

We are deploying our spring beans in JBoss through the JBoss Spring deployer which requires that we use only one configuration file, jboss-service.xml.

Configuration of your pojos is not in jboss-service.xml (file only contains deployer configuration), but it's in your [name]-spring.xml files. And there can be multiple such files or multiple .spring archive files with jboss-spring.xml in META-INF. They can even be in hierarchy (similar to Spring's bean factories or application contexts).

Go through these helping resources:
- it.sys-con.com/read/180386.htm
- http://www.jbossworld.com/core_infrastructure/JUSTIN_ejb3_jbwv.pdf
- http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossSpringIntegration
- docs in distribution http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22866&package_id=161914

Thanks for your answer. I indeed meant jboss-spring.xml . so we have a .spring file that contains our pojos, and under META-INF, our *-spring.xml . I tried that and JBoss complained that it could not find jboss-spring.xml, so i added an empty one :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

and then I added the rest of my xml files, with their names changed to -spring.xml (applicationContext-persistence-spring.xml etc) under META-inf, but JBoss did not read them. So are you saying that we need one .spring archive per configuration file (which must be jboss-spring.xml) ?

Thank you very much !