Class loading and NoClassDefFoundError

[breno.leitao]

Hello people,

I have a doubt about manifests and class loading.

I am using jboss 3.2.7, and everytime I change a POJO jar, inside my ear directory (My ear is expanded), from a-1.jar to a-2-RC1.jar, I need to generate a ejb/war that loads this artefact, or i will get a
ClassDefNotFoundException, or rename a-2-RC1.jar to a-1.jar, which is ugly. :-(

Is there a bettter way to not generate the ejb/war?

I tried to generate a dummy-ejb.jar file every time I change a jar in the EAR directory. This dummy ejb has no classes inside, only the ejb descriptors and a manifest that includes all POJOS jars in his manifest.
I am using a plain class loader policy, so the solution above should work. but it isn't.

Any sugestions?

Thanks
Breno Leitao

[jaikiran]

When you change your POJO jar inside the ear, you will have to redeploy your application. As you mention that your ear is in exploded form, have a look at:

http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=RedeployAnApplicationWhenChangeAFileInAnExplodedDeploymentDirectory