Hi,

I am deploying an ear in Jboss AS 7.1.0.CR1 which contains a spring module (astroboa-engine.spring) and an EJB module (astroboa-ejb3.jar) and I would like

them to be initialized in the order they are mentioned.

I have specified initialize-in-order parameter to be "true" in the application.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_6.xsd" version="6">

  <description>This modules is responsible to generate Astroboa EAR</description>

  <display-name>astroboa-ear</display-name>

  <initialize-in-order>true</initialize-in-order>

  <module>

    <java>astroboa-engine.spring</java>

  </module>

  <module>

    <ejb>astroboa-ejb3.jar</ejb>

  </module>

  <library-directory>lib</library-directory>

</application>

I have also specified the module-order parameter in jboss-app.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE jboss-app PUBLIC

        "-//JBoss//DTD Java EE Application 5.0//EN"

        "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-app_5_0.dtd">

<jboss-app>

  <module-order>strict</module-order>

</jboss-app>

and finally I have even provided a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file where I declare that the EJB module depends on

the spring module.

<jboss-deployment-structure>

  <!-- Make sub deployments isolated by default, so they cannot see each others classes without a Class-Path entry -->

  <ear-subdeployments-isolated>false</ear-subdeployments-isolated>

  <sub-deployment name="astroboa-engine.spring">

        <dependencies>

        <module name="org.apache.xerces" />

        </dependencies>

  </sub-deployment>

  <sub-deployment name="astroboa-ejb3.jar">

        <dependencies>

             <module name="deployment.astroboa.ear.astroboa-engine.spring" />

        </dependencies>

  </sub-deployment>

</jboss-deployment-structure>

JBoss AS seems to ignore all the above and deploys the two modules at the same time. 

I have been searching for something similar without any luck.

I have only come across with the issue https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3078 and

I have looked at the application.xml of the test case for this issue where the ear consists of a war and an ejb module. Since this issue has been

resolved and the test case is very similar to my case, I believe that there is something wrong with the initialization order when it comes

for spring modules.

Any hint would be appreciated!