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From: Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibucau@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:57:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: Missing web.xml file causes UnknownModuleTypeException
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The problem with this is that for Tomcat everything is a webapp so that's
easy to guess which module typ eit is.

TomEE can manage jar, war and ear so we need something to distinguish them.

The WEB-INF folder is enough (and i think the spec don't say it is
optional).

- Romain


2012/3/6 Neale Rudd <neale@metawerx.net>

> Hi Romain,
>
> Yes - an empty WEB-INF folder works fine, and also it's no problem adding
> a simple web.xml anyway.
>
> I'm more concerned with whether it will stay this way and if it's part of
> the spec or not, as I'm making a list of differences for our customers if
> they want to try TomEE.  Naturally the closer it is to Tomcat's behaviour,
> the easier it is for them to start using it.
>
> Best Regards,
> Neale
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romain Manni-Bucau" <
> rmannibucau@gmail.com>
> To: <users@openejb.apache.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Missing web.xml file causes UnknownModuleTypeException
>
>
>
>  Did you try putting an emtpy WEB-INF folder?
>>
>> - Romain
>>
>>
>> 2012/3/6 Neale Rudd <neale@metawerx.net>
>>
>>  Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> One of the apps we're trying on TomEE 1.0.0-beta-2 throws an
>>> UnknownModuleTypeException when deploying, because it has no
>>> WEB-INF/web.xml file.
>>>
>>> It's a simple static website (html, css, images).
>>>
>>> The docs I've read seem to indicate that web.xml is optional, and it's
>>> definitely optional on Tomcat 7.
>>>
>>> Is this a difference with TomEE or a pending issue?
>>>
>>> I found another mail on the list from 9-Oct-2011 and TOMEE-27 on Jira but
>>> it's marked as Fixed for 1.0.0-beta-2.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Neale Rudd
>>> Metawerx Pty Ltd
>>> http://www.metawerx.net
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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