Two sars and class loader question.

[wichka]

(1)
I was wondering if the two sars in a deploy directory find jars in each others sar.

(2) Can a sar in a deploy directory find the jar in the lib directory?

My view is that sars are loaded in different class loaders and hence they can't find jars in other sars? If that is true how can can external jar be loaded in the same class loader as sar?

Appreciate if you can spend some time in answering my questions.

Thanks,
Basheer

[jiwils]

"wichka" wrote:
(1) I was wondering if the two sars in a deploy directory find jars in each others sar.

Yes.

"wichka" wrote:
(2) Can a sar in a deploy directory find the jar in the lib directory?

Yes.

"wichka" wrote:
My view is that sars are loaded in different class loaders and hence they can't find jars in other sars?

See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ClassLoadingConfiguration for more information on how this works (not just for SARs but all "top-level" deployments).