I've been working on geronimo's ejb lite support. The way geronimo is set up we tell DeploymentLoader to look in META-INF or WEB-INF for ejb-jar.xml, and expect openejb to decide that any module that it finds ejbs in, whether by finding an ejb-jar.xml or by finding annotated classes, is an ejb module.
Right now openejb is deciding that a module is an ejb module if it has an ejb-jar.xml, but a web module if it has a web.xml but no ejb-jar.xml, even if there are annotated ejbs. I don't understand why this would be appropriate for openejb, so what I'm provisionally implementing is: - provide a flag in a constructor, preferEjb - if its true, check for ejb-jar.xml and annotated ejbs before looking for web.xml, and if found decide the module is an ejb module - if its is false, the current behavior, where we check for ejb-jar.xml, then web.xml, then annotated ejbs. If the preferEjb=true behavior would be more appropriate for openejb by itself, let me know and I'll adjust the code appropriately. many thanks david jencks
