topic Alfresco 5.0d share resources META-INF are not included in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco 5.0d share resources META-INF are not included

nunocardoso — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 11:47:42 GMT

Hi. I am migrating my project from 4.2e to 5.0d, and I am using the all-in-one maven archetype, sdk 2.1.1. In my project I have custom css, js and tinymce plugins on the META-INF folder. For the 4.2e build (mv integration -Pamp-tp-war), those files are overlayed into the war file. Yet, with the new

Re: Alfresco 5.0d share resources META-INF are not included

afaust — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 12:27:52 GMT

Hello,

addon META-INF contents should never be overlayed into the WAR file - they must always be included in the META-INF of the JAR file for the addon. Also, starting with Alfresco 5.1, the default META-INF contents of the Share WAR are important for module validation / dependency management purposes and must never be overriden by any addon (specifically the MANIFEST.MF). SDK 2.1.1 may already contain changes that are aimed at preventing any accidental overlay.

See <a href="https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ACE-4325">ACE-4325</a> for one issue I directly experienced with accidental overlay of META-INF. This issue also references another issue that Alfresco themselves encountered. The <a href="https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk/issues/335">SDK issue #335</a> contains a mention that in future versions, WAR overlay may be discontinued anyway.

Regards
Axel

Re: Alfresco 5.0d share resources META-INF are not included

tyler_lovejoy — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:58:36 GMT

Took me all day to figure out where the META-INF files were going, thanks for the insight