War and ejb-jar depend on same jar

[rblack]

Both my ejb-jar file and my war file depend on the same jar. The ejb-jar file is able to find the classes in the jar, but not the war. I'm putting the jar inside the ear, and referencing it from the WAR's manifest.mf with a Class-Path: line, like this:

Contents of ear:
icp-ejb.jar
icp.war
common-library.jar

Contents of icp.war's META-INF/manifest-mf contains:
Class-Path: common-library.jar

But the classes in the war can't find the classes in common-library.jar.

Do I have to include two copies of common-library.jar? One in the ear, and one in the war's WEB-INF/lib folder?

[jmc_o_bfd]

> Both my ejb-jar file and my war file depend on the
> same jar. The ejb-jar file is able to find the
> classes in the jar, but not the war. I'm putting the
> jar inside the ear, and referencing it from the WAR's
> manifest.mf with a Class-Path: line, like this:
>
> Contents of ear:
> icp-ejb.jar
> icp.war
> common-library.jar
>
> Contents of icp.war's META-INF/manifest-mf contains:
> Class-Path: common-library.jar
>
> But the classes in the war can't find the classes in
> common-library.jar.
>
> Do I have to include two copies of
> common-library.jar? One in the ear, and one in the
> war's WEB-INF/lib folder?


As far as I know, the common or thirdparty libraries that you wish to be accessible by your webapp (i.e., WAR file) must be placed inside your webapp's WEB-INF/lib directory. In the example you give below, then, you would want it to look something like this
EAR_file/
WAR_file/
WEB-INF/
lib/
common-library.jar
...
EJB_jar/
...
common-library.jar

Again, this is my understanding. Please correct this is erroneous.

jMC