How to prevent JBoss AS 7.x to deploy Web Services contained in a web app dependency

Question

We have a web app with a .jar in our WEB-INF/lib that contains some annotated Web Services. JBoss try to deploy the Web Services defined in the .jar but we want only to use the classes as normal java API.

There is a way to prevent JBoss to deploy the Web Services?

We cannot modify the .jar and we have some RESTful services in our web app.

Answer 1

In general the shared libs folder of your application should contain only utility classes without any component-declaring annotations (such EJB3 or JAX-RS), as it can have unintended and undesirable consequences on the deployment process.

To sort this problem out in jboss 7.x you have to remove the jars from WEB-INF/lib (or lib if you have an EAR). Third party libraries have to be installed as modules https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/MODULES/Defining+a+module.

Then you have to declare the module in the MANIFEST of your war in the Dependencies list.

Hope it helps, Fabrizio