Read and Load under "WEB-INF/classes/hk2-locator" Doesn't Work

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The bellow documentation says that HK2 will be able to find and load "application" inhabitant file under "WEB-INF/classes/hk2-locator." Looking at the class "org.glassfish.hk2.utilities.ClasspathDescriptorFileFinder" by default it seems to always look for a inhabitant file called "default" under the "META-INF/hk2-locator/" instead of looking for inhabitant files under both "META-INF/hk2-locator/" and "WEB-INF/classes/hk2-locator/" resource paths.

There seems to be a discrepancy between the documentation and what happens and shouldn't HK2 scan for and pickup all inhabitant files under those resource paths regardless of whether they are called application, default, or some arbitrary custom name?

https://hk2.java.net/integration.html

Environment

Linux 64bit JDK v.1.7.0_40 Tomcat v7.0.34 HK2 v2.2.0-b20

Affected Versions

[2.2.0]

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• Issue Imported From: https://github.com/javaee/hk2/issues/177
• Original Issue Raised By:@glassfishrobot
• Original Issue Assigned To: @jwells131313
• Original Issue Closed By:@glassfishrobot

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@glassfishrobot Commented Reported by @saden1

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@glassfishrobot Commented @jwells131313 said: There are tests in GlassFish under appserver/tests/hk2 that appear to say that hk2 files located in WEB-INF/classes/hk2-locator/application are in fact picked up and used in applications. I'll investigate this a little more, but I think this is working as designed. I do not believe that the ClassPathDescriptorFileFinder is used when discovering hk2 artifacts in Java EE applications.

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@glassfishrobot Commented @jwells131313 said: The integration with GlassFish is done in GlassFish (using the generic population facility of hk2). The class that finds the hk2 files is org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationDescriptorFileFinder. The file that runs https://hk2.java.net/2.2.0-b21/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/Populator.html#populate%28org.glassfish.hk2.api.DescriptorFileFinder,%20org.glassfish.hk2.api.PopulatorPostProcessor...%29 is org.glassfish.internal.data.ApplicationInfo when an application is being deployed.

This looks correct to me and there are tests that verify that it works properly.

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@glassfishrobot Commented @saden1 said: I am using Tomcat. Are you suppose to do anything specific if you're not using Glassfish?

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@glassfishrobot Commented @jwells131313 said: You can use HK2 in Tomcat, but you will need to do your own bootstrapping and population. The best thing to do is use the https://hk2.java.net/2.2.0-b22/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/DynamicConfigurationService.html, get the https://hk2.java.net/2.2.0-b22/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/Populator.html and write your own https://hk2.java.net/2.2.0-b22/apidocs/org/glassfish/hk2/api/DescriptorFileFinder.html.

It might not be a bad idea for HK2 to provide an implementation of DescriptorFileFinder that would work OOTB in WebApps on platforms like Tomcat.

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@glassfishrobot Commented This issue was imported from java.net JIRA HK2-133

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@glassfishrobot Commented Marked as works as designed on Friday, December 6th 2013, 3:45:09 am