Sorry if my question looks late or stupid, but what is the benefit of those xed files, how are they added to the lib folder currently ? That might explains why these meta information are not integrated to the jar file, what I would have expected more than B. Thanks, -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Denis Gervalle <denis.gervalle(a)softec.lu> wrote: Sorry if my question looks late or stupid, but what is the benefit of those xed files, how are they added to the lib folder currently ? That might explains why these meta information are not integrated to the jar file, what I would have expected more than B. Thanks, -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:31 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea <mariusdumitru.florea(a)xwiki.com> wrote: I don't have a problem with keeping the XED files in WEB-INF/lib if the spec doesn't forbid it, especially if it simplifies the implementation. Thanks, Marius On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: > Hi devs, > > 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. > > 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 > >