This is really for David Jencks since I think he is the only one that understands this code....

In the createModule phase of deployment, the code must build the Geronimo environment object so we can create a class loader. Most of the data for this object comes from the geronimo-*.xml deployment plan, but the naming builders can add additional dependencies to the environment. Basically, the naming builders inspect the specDD and vendorDD to see if either is using a naming ref that the builder handles, and if so the builder adds the dependencies the application will need to use that reference object.

The problem is in JEE5 reference objects are defined in class annotations, and to read these annotations you need a class loader, and to get a class loader you need an environment object, and to get the environment object you need to process the references in the annotations. As you can see we have a chicken and egg problem.

I suggest that in the short time (while Jencks figures out how to modify the builders for Jee5), we hard code the naming builders to always add their dependencies.

What do you think?

-dain

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