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Scannotation fix for /WEB-INF/classes

Posted by billburke on February 14, 2008

I have a confession.  I didn’t really test the code that allowed you to scan /WEB-INF/classes for my Scannotation project.  In the old code, if you run within Tomcat, you’ll get a “jndi:” protocol based URL that my code doesn’t understand yet how to scan

Instead, I obtain the URL by doing a ServletContext.getRealPath(”/WEB-INF/classes”).  Unfortunately, this is not guaranteed to work by the specification, so, if you run into this problem, you’re gonna have to find another way to scan this directory portably.

I’ve released a version 1.02 of Scannotation that has this RealPath fix along with a few other minor bug fixes I found while using the library.

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