[gemini-dev] Broken WAB resource handling in Tomcat 8

[detelinyordanov@xxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

  We recently tried Gemini Web 3.0 RC2 with Tomcat 8.5.5 and encountered a resource handling problem for web application bundles. We have tested Web application bundles with some jars in WEB-ING/lib which provide rest services and noticed that Jersey was not able to load them. At the end, it turned out that ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("WEB-INF/lib/foo.jar") always returns null, even though ServletContext.getResourcePaths() successfully lists the resources.

This can be reproduced with Equinox 3.10 (Luna), Gemini Web 3.0 RC2 and a simple wab containing a jar in WEB-INF/lib. 

Could this be a problem in Gemini Web and/or Tomcat 8's new resource handling? I checked Gemini Web jira but did not find anything similar, will look further but thought I might just drop an email to see if anyone is aware of this issue.

Regards,

   Detelin