Application deployment should not fail if a web-fragment.xml references another fragment by name that isn't part of the deployment. That defeats the whole purpose of the relative ordering in the web-fragment.xml.

For example, Seam Servlet needs to be ordered after Weld Servlet. So we define ordering the Seam Servlet web-fragment.xml as follows:

<ordering>
<after>
<name>WeldServlet</name>
</after>
<before>
<others/>
</before>
</ordering>

However, we can't guarantee that Weld Servlet will be used. In that case, JBoss AS should just ignore the request.

Here's the error that's appearing in the log:

org.jboss.deployers.spi.DeploymentException: Invalid ordering

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unknown name declared in JAR: seam-servlet-3.0.0-20101222.050701-2.jar
at org.jboss.web.deployers.MergedJBossWebMetaDataDeployer.resolveOrder(MergedJBossWebMetaDataDeployer.java:711) [:6.0.0-SNAPSHOT]
at org.jboss.web.deployers.MergedJBossWebMetaDataDeployer.deploy(MergedJBossWebMetaDataDeployer.java:306) [:6.0.0-SNAPSHOT]