[TOMEE-1475] Annotated WebListener not found if TomEE is started from symlinked directory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2
• Environment: Linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thorsten Meinl
• Created: 09/Dec/14 16:59
• Updated: 28/Jun/16 11:52
• Resolved: 28/Jun/16 11:52

Description

I have a TomEE installation /opt/apache-tomee-plus-1.7.1. There is a symlink /opt/apache-tomee pointing to that directory. TomEE is started using this symlink as CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. Then I have a webapp with an annotated WebListener. The class is inside the webapps WEB-INF/classes directory. However, the init listener never gets called in this scenario. If I set CATALINA_HOME/BASE to the "real" directory it works.
I did a bit of debugging and the cause is the check in org.apache.tomee.catalina.OpenEJBContextConfig.internalProcessAnnotations, line 573. The "webAnnotated.name" contains the symlink in the path whereas "currentUrlAsFile" is the canonical path. The canonical path is not a part of the symlinked path and therefore the listeners does not get added.
The root cause is probably org.apache.openejb.loader.JarLocation.jarLocation(Class). It should also return canonical paths to be consistent.
This bug is pretty nasty because without hours of debugging you won't find the problem.

Issue Links

• duplicates: TOMEE-1370 symbolic links not supported by tomee for @WebXXX