Shared JAR Files EJB/Web Deployment

[danielkalcevich]

I am in the process of refactoring two JMS Listeners to being Message Driven Beans. Upon doing so, I removed them from the Web Application and am wanting to deploy them as EJB's. So now there will be app.war and myEJB.jar within the .EAR file. The problem I am running into is that when I deploy the ear, it complains about ClassNotFoundExceptions on the EJB Module. The reason for this is because the MessageListeners rely on code that exists within a jar file under the WEB-INF/lib of the web project.

Whats the best way to configure my .EAR so that I can access the code from both the EJB and Web App?

Thanks,
Daniel

application.xml
----------

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/application_1_4.xsd"
 version="1.4">

 <display-name>EAR File for my app</display-name>
 <module>
 <ejb>myEJB.jar</ejb>
 </module>
 <module>
 <web>
 <web-uri>app.war</web-uri>
 <context-root>app</context-root>
 </web>
 </module>

</application>

[danielkalcevich]

I was reading up on the isolated class loading within an EAR File on the JBoss Wiki. Would that work in this situation? I am still getting the ClassNotFoundExceptions when the EJB.jar is starting up. Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Daniel