class accessibility/visiibility from JBoss <config-type>/lib

[cpaul_it]

I have searched for the answer to this problem, but I have not been successful in finding the answer (or even the same type of question).

Is it possible to configure JBoss/Tomcat so that a given .war app will look for dependent classes from within the [JBoss-install]/[config-type]/lib directory rather than the WEB-INF/lib directory inside the .war? I'd like to not have to include the dependent jars into the .war file.

We're adding java-based Crystal Reports to our app, and the total size of the Crystal jars is about 14MB. This makes our .ear go from 1.5MB to about 16MB. This causes several problems, among which is an occasional timeout exception during the deploy of our application from within JBoss and the transfer time when deploying to remote machines.

[skondam]

The answer is in you question itself. Copy the jar to [JBoss-install]/[config-type]/lib directory and deploy your web app as usual.

[cpaul_it]

The last time we tried just putting them in the JBOSS/[config-type]/lib directory, we experienced class not found errors (from the .war). The J2EE side had complete visibility to these files.

[cpaul_it]

BTW, we're using JBoss 3.2.3 bundled with Tomcat 4.1.29.

[cpaul_it]

I think we were having some other config issue on the dev machine where we were having this problem. We just barely, on another dev machine, removed the Crystal jars from the WEB-INF/lib directory and put them in the JBOSS/[config-type]/lib directory, and we had no problems.