The classes under web-inf/classes make up the core war archive. It should be treated as an archive. You can load the META-INF/services directly from the war archive.
Yes, though the war archive is still different from the jar, if only for things like it having a WEB-INF/beans.xml as well. Simply put, GF in its deployments goes through the archive types; ear, war, ejb jar, rar, library jar, etc, and there's some code for each of them. Seemingly the original authors never took into consideration the idea that a war could be an archive having only an extension and not being a BDA.
The new tests test for this, although it's not specified that this should be possible. Nevertheless, since we all agree I think that it should work, I'll indeed try to make it work in GF.
I do wonder if other servers will also hit this. Did OpenLiberty already pass?
yes, Open Liberty has passed all CDI TCKs already.
Okay, that's great news. Thanks Emily.
