NoClassDefFoundError

[sseaman]

Running JBoss 3.0.2.

I've got a session bean that uses some classes I have in a jar file.

It compiles fine, but I get a NoClassDefFoundError when I run my client against the session bean. The error is generated when the bean tries to find one of the classes in the Jar.

I tried putting the jar in my server//lib dir and also in META-INF/lib (just guessing) and it can't seem to find the class.

Where does one put a jar file that a bean needs access to?

Thanks!

[adrian.brock]

server//lib should be available
to everything.

But it is only loaded at startup.
Did you restart the server?

You can put jars in server//deploy
for hot deployment

Regards,
Adrian

[sseaman]

That worked. Don't know why it didn't before.

Anyway, do you know of any way to put the jars required by the objects into the j2ee jar file so I do not have to put files into the /server//lib dir?

I also don't want to have the util jars in the deploy dir. I would like to have them in the one jar that represents the whole app.

Thanks!

[benw]

Put them all in an .ear file. Refer to the Sun Java web site on how to create one (or a good J2EE book). Make sure that the MANIFEST.MF file in your application jar has a reference to the 3rd party jars.

Ben