On 24 Jan 2017, at 15:36, Thomas Mortagne thomas.mortagne@xwiki.com wrote:
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In XWiki 9.0RC1 we’re putting XED files in WEB-INF/lib next to the JAR to which they correspond.
I have 2 issues with this:
- We’re not really supposed to use WEB-INF/lib for that. WEB-INF/lib is meant for JAR files that are to be made available to the classloader. It’s even possible that some servlet container would emit warnings about this.
- This is a WTF for admins when they discover this. The WAR has a spec and it’s standardised. Thus the WTF when you see this since you’re not used to seeing this anywhere else.
Could you give a reference to the specification forbidding to put anything else that JAR files in WEB-INF/lib.
The spec is not that precise but it doesn’t matter much. The main point is that admins are used to see only JAR files in WEB-INF/lib and it’s not the place for metadata files. META-INF/ seems a much nicer location for that.
My belief is that if you ask anyone where they think these metadata files should go between: A) in WEB-INF/lib B) in META-INF/xwiki
they’d choose B. But I want to verify this, hence this proposal.
Thanks -Vincent
I’m thus proposing to move the XED files to a META-INF/xwiki/ directory inside the WAR instead since META-INF is meant to contain metadata information and is thus meant exactly for this.
WDTY?
Thanks -Vincent