Best way to share classes in several SAR files ?

[daune_jf]

Hi all,

I wonder what is the best way to share classes between several SAR files.

I observed that classes in a JAR contained in SAR file 1 are not visible in SAR file 2 (I get class not found exception).

My first thought is to package the common classes in a JAR and put this one under server/lib.

But maybe there is a more elegant way to manage such dependencies ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Jean-Franç

[ahardy66]

Hi Jean,
is there any reason why you do not want to install a copy of the jar into each sar?

[daune_jf]

To avoid ClassCastException (services actually interact)

J-F

[juha]

"daune_jf" wrote:

I observed that classes in a JAR contained in SAR file 1 are not visible in SAR file 2 (I get class not found exception).

They are visible, unless you're explicitly isolating their classloaders with <loader-repository> tag. You need to order the deployments though, SAR1 (with the JAR classes) must be deployed before SAR2, or you will see a ClassNotFoundException.