Where to place third party libraries in JBoss

[jjman]

How can I define, where to place third party libraries? And what if some application wants to use different version from same library?

[jae77]

you have a couple options.

1) you can place them in the "lib" directory under JBOSS_HOME/server/default. any libraries placed here will be available to all deployed apps. there is no way to update libraries here w/o a server restart. jdbc drivers are good to place here.

2) you can place them directly in the deploy directory.

3) you can package them inside your ear/war/sar

seperate library versions can be accomplished using loader-repositories. however, you may have problems if app1 needs to talk to app2 and they use different library versions.