EJBDeployer handling of MANIFEST.MF broken in 3.2.1?

[troypoppe]

I just installed 3.2.1 (upgrading from 3.0.6) and I think I've discovered a problem with the EJBDeployer's handling of META-INF/Manifest.MF files.

In an EAR file I had working on 3.0.6, I had the following contents of a Manifest.MF:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.5.2
Created-By: 1.4.1_01-b01 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
Class-Path: lib/Party.jar


When deployed on 3.0.6, this worked fine, and added the path (from inside the ear file) to the classpath, and loaded the classes properly.

However, in 3.2.1, I get this error message when deploying:

13:58:10,431 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1/server/default/deploy/pmsejb.ear
13:58:10,451 INFO [EARDeployer] Init J2EE application: file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1/server/default/deploy/pmsejb.ear
13:58:10,982 WARN [MainDeployer] The manifest entry in file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1/server/default/deploy/pmsejb.ear references URL file:/C:/jboss-3.2.1/server/default/deploy/lib/Party.jar which could not be opened, entry ignored
13:58:12,384 WARN [EJBDeployer] Verify failed; continuing

Note the path it is trying to load from, this is not relative to the archive (.ear). This seems to be a violation of the jar file specification (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#JAR%20Manifest)

Any guidance?

Thanks

Troy Poppe

[sraj]

looks like if you have an ejb in that jar it gives this error .. not if its a plain jar file.

[gudmundsonsc]

I had a similar problem and put ../lib/....... instead of simply lib/....... to work around.

[kprindia]

This is about jboss 3.2.1

Even i have similar problem.
This is my directory structure
Trendium.ear
OB.jar
Backend.jar
tsglt50.jar
tsgltc5.jar
Beans.jar
--- META-INF
--- com/trendium/ejbs/*.java

Beans in Beans.jar requires the other four jars.
I specified that dependency using Class-Path : Backend.jar, tsglt50.jar, tsgltc5.jar
with a new line after this line.

When i deploy the beans.jar, jboss says that Beans.jar deployed.
But when i tried to do a jndi lookup on the bean, it says NameNotFound. By trial and error i removed the Class-Path line in the manifest line and now i am able to find the bean using JNDI lookup.

Now when i try to use the bean after lookup, it is not able to find some of the classes needed by the beans in beans.jar as they are present in the other jar files.

I am interested to know where to place the other jars such that it is visible to Beans.jar in jboss 3.2.1

I appreciate anybody's response to my posting.

Thank you