The chain [1] left of with: "The relevant language is in section 8.2.1
<quote> If a framework wants its META-INF/web-fragment.xml honored in such a way that it augments a web application's web.xml, the framework must be bundled within the web application's WEB-INF/lib directory </quote> Therefore, Tomcat 8.0 looks to be doing the right thing." Which I think is fine for the case where the container is augmenting a existing web.xml. However the spec also says "If a framework is packaged as a jar file and has metadata information in the form of deployment descriptor then the web-fragment.xml descriptor must be in the META-INF/ directory of the jar file." I'm not interested in augmenting a existing web.xml, nor my embedded app is using WEB-INF/lib, which seems not to meet the eligibility critieria for adding the jar to WEB-INF/lib , tomcat should honor META-INF/web-fragment.xml in jars in the absence of web.xml, to determine if the Servlet 3.0 annotations are going to be scanned. This is the problem I'm having after fixing the classloading issues in [2]. Thoughts? [1] - https://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=149443917508077&w=2 [2] - https://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user&m=150701409822162&w=2
