Romain Manni-Bucau wrote > 1. self contained and not used in another modules (ejb or web) -> you > register it in tomee.xml (in > <Deployments> > + config if needed) and that's it
What does "+ config if needed" mean? I think you mean I should put some config information somewhere. Where? In some XML file? In some java class? In the RAR? Directly in tomEE.xml? The support forums are full of people asking "How do I deploy a RAR in TomEE?" and tearing out their hair because they can't get an answer. Somehow RAR files seem to be a blind spot in the documentation. Is it because nobody is using them? Should I be considering some alternative approach? What I am trying to do is have a message-driven bean that handles Kafka messages. There's a sample implementation here <https://abhirockzz.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/consume-from-kafka-topics-using-message-driven-beans/> , that makes use of a connector RAR published by the Payara project ( here <https://github.com/payara/Cloud-Connectors/tree/master/Kafka> ). I have been all over the RAR from Payara and it seems to be fully compliant with JavaEE 7; nothing in there that makes use of any special Payara features, etc. With a fresh copy of TomEE 7.0.5, I tried adding, to ${CATALINA_BASE}/conf/tomee.xml, a Deployments element that references the RAR, and then starting the server. The server failed claiming it can't find a class that is referred to in the connector code. Here is the relevant part of the log: I have examined the RAR, and the class that TomEE can't find, is definitely there, in one of the JARs included in the RAR. The RAR looks like this: And kafka-clients-0.10.2.1.jar contained in the rar, contains this: -- Sent from: http://tomee-openejb.979440.n4.nabble.com/TomEE-Dev-f982480.html
