Bug 50059 - Resources are not served from /WEB-INF/lib/{*.jar}/META-INF/resources if metadata-complete="true" is set in web.xml
Summary: Resources are not served from /WEB-INF/lib/{*.jar}/META-INF/resources if meta...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat 7
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Catalina (show other bugs)
Version: 7.0.2
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2010-10-08 07:57 UTC by Attila Király
Modified: 2010-10-08 17:32 UTC (History)
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Description Attila Király 2010-10-08 07:57:25 UTC
To reproduce:
1. Make a Servlet 3.0 webapp (lets name it foo) with metadata-complete="true" attribute set on the web-app element in the /WEB-IBNF/web.xml.
2. Make a jar holding a single /META-INF/resources/index.html file. The jar should be placed in /WEB-INF/lib (lets name it bar.jar).
3. Start the web app in Tomcat 7.0.2 and in browser go to http://localhost:8080/foo/index.html.

Expected result: 200 response and index.html served.
Actual result: 404

If you modify the web.xml to metadata-complete="false" and restart the app now /foo/index.html will respond as expected.

I tried the same webapp with Glassfish v3.0.1 and it works as expected regardless what I set in metadata-complete attribute.

I made a quick look in the servlet 3.0 spec and as far as I can see metadata-complete only regulates annotation and web fragment processing. In the example bar.jar has nothing to do with annotations and it is not a web fragment either but it is still handled differently depending on the metadata-complete attribute.
Comment 1 Mark Thomas 2010-10-08 17:32:39 UTC
Thanks for the report. Fixed in trunk and will be in 7.0.4 onwards.