Hi Martin, Your definition of the skinny WAR is very slightly off and that may or not solve your issue. A skinny WAR is not necessarily a WAR from which *all* WEB-INF/lib was stripped, but rather one where all of its dependencies that are shared by another module in the EAR gets stripped. For example, let say you have:
WAR1 depends on artifact1 and artifact2 WAR2 depends on artifact2 and artifact3 EJB-JAR depends on artifact1 Then the EAR's lib should contain artifact1 and artifact2, WAR1 should not contain any lib, WAR2 should still contain artifact3. Now, in your case, if your EAR contains 2 JSF application WARs, then your issue still stands and I cannot really see how you'll be able to get truly skinny WAR as indeed you must not remove the JSF related artifacts from the WARs. However, if your EAR is a single WAR and some EJB/MDB then the skinny WAR should work just fine (it's what we use here and it work fine, the web related libraries stay in the WAR and don'T get promoted to the EAR). Regards, On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Martin Hoeller <mar...@xss.co.at> wrote: > Hi all! > > Most webapplication developers will probably know the concept of skinny > WARs which is described here [0]. > > When I have a skinny WAR in an EAR everthing from WAR!WEB-INF/lib is > excluded and goes into the lib-folder of the EAR. Thus, it is in the WARs > classpath. > > However, when I use JSF component libraries like RichFaces or OmniFaces > they contain classes that are annotated with various JSF annotations > (@FacesComponet, @FacesConverter, etc.). Unfortunately JSF only scans the > WAR and not JARs in the classpath of the WAR that are located in the EAR. > This is correct behaviour according to the JSF 2.0 specification > (JSR-314), section 11.5.1 [1]. > > So my question is: how can this problem be solved for skinny WARs? Or are > skinny WARs considered obsolete these days? > > Many thanks in advance, > - martin > > [0] > http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVENUSER/Solving+the+Skinny+Wars+problem > [1] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314 > -- *Simon Lessard*, ADF Architect *CMA* *SYSTeMS* *( +33(0) 6 79 37 39 85 (France)*
