[WW-4055] Convention plugin doesn't find any Action classes in EAR deployment on Weblogic 10 and 12

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.14
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.20
• Component/s: Plugin - Convention
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Lukasz Lenart
• Reporter: Stefan Reich
• Created: 19/Apr/13 19:41
• Updated: 12/Oct/15 11:23
• Resolved: 07/Aug/14 05:44

Description

The weblogic container versions 10, 11 and 12 has a peculiar way of deploying ear and war files.
It unpacks the ear and war file, and jars up the contents of WEB-INF classes into a new file: WEB-INF/lib/_wl_cls_gen.jar. After that, all content from WEB-INF/classes is deleted.

The consequence is that the classloader will return a URL to the WEB-INF/classes directory when the plugin is searching for annotated classes, but it will be empty, so this plugin would never find any Action classes.

I have a patch that has been verified to work on Weblogic 10 and 12.