deployment of ear containing jars + sar

[demarco]

Hi together.

I try to deploy an ear containg 1 sar and multible jars.
I try the follwing structure of the ear:

app.ear
|
|--- META-INF
| |
| |--- application.xml
| |
| |--- jboss-app.xml
|
|--- lib
| |
| |--- lib1.jar
| |--- lib2.jar
| |--- .....
|
|--- service.sar

The MBean Interface of the sar package using classes of f.e. lib1.jar.
During deployment I got a ClassNotFoundException of this class.

My jboss-app.xml:

<jboss-app>
 <loader-repository>com.example:archive=app.ear</loader-repository>
 <module>
 <service>service.sar</service>
 </module>
</jboss-app>

My application.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" version="1.4"
 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">
 <display-name>my ear application</display-name>

 <library-directory>lib</library-directory>
</application>

Then I appended all libs to the manifest of the service.sar

Classpath lib1.jar lib2.jar ...

The same error...

Then I added the following settings to my application.xml:

 <module>
 <connector>service.sar</connector>
 </module>

Always the same...

The only way it works I found is to append all jar-files directry to the sar-file.
But that is not exactly what I want, because the jars should be later shared by other modules in the ear.
So, is there a common way to do that. Thanks for help..

[genman]

Add the jars to the META-INF/Manifest of the .ear file. Be doubly sure have "Classpath: " in there.

[demarco]

Thanks for your answer, but it doesn't help. The same error.
Is there no standard way to do that?

[demarco]

Are there other ideas?
Somebody who knows if the relative pathes of libs must be included in the classpath entry of the manifest? f.e.

Meta-inf of the service-jar
Classpath /lib/lib1.jar /lib/lib2.jar ... or
Classpath ../lib/lib1.jar ../lib/lib2.jar ...
or something else?

Is the classpath entry generally necessary? If yes; why is this not handelt by the <library-directory>lib</library-directory> entry of the applciation.xml?

[demarco]

no ideas?

[demarco]

Found it by myself. thanks. The libs should not be declared in a <library-directory>. The should seperatly defined in such a way:

lib/lib1.jar


Seems to be a simple answer, but now I'm running in a classloader conflict, which I describe in a separate task.