Module Order Proprietary Option Backward Compatibility Issue

ropalka Feb 7, 2008 8:08 AM

Hi folks,

I was asked by Dimitris to initiate this forum thread. The problem I'd like to talk about is described here:

http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-5115

In short:

I've got correct AS 4.x DD with the following content:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>

<!DOCTYPE jboss-app
 PUBLIC "-//JBoss//DTD J2EE Application 1.4//EN"
 "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_4_0.dtd">

<jboss-app>
 <module-order>strict</module-order>
</jboss-app>

Archive with such jboss-app.xml file works very well on AS 4.x but fails on AS 5.x with the exception (available in aforementioned bug). From my point of view it's backward compatibility issue.

Scott Stark in this thread:

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=127984

writes:

It should at least parse and produce a warning if the behavior is not supported.

What do you think about it folks?

1. Re: Module Order Proprietary Option Backward Compatibility I

starksm64 Feb 7, 2008 11:21 AM (in response to ropalka)

Its a simple addition to JBossAppMetaData in the metadata project to parse this. We just need to add an enum property for this. We may end up using it and expanding it for the current war ordering discussion related to JBAS-5190. I'll do this for CR1 of the server.
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