java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError where to put classes ???

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Please Im in desperate need for knowing where to put my classes !

I ve tried many different ways but allways fails with a NoClassDefFoundError

I ve classes that I want to access from my beans, I bundle the application in an EAR.

I ve tryed this with my EAR:
* put all classes in APP-INF/classes
* added all classes to a client-jar and put it to the APP-INF/lib
* put the client-jar in the / root
* put the client-jar in the lib/
* modified the MANIFEST.MF with a Class-Path: ./lib/client-jar.jar
* modified the application.xml with a module tag
* and so on...

Nothing works!!! I know that the client-jar.jar file is "good" while I ve put it in the server/default/lib directory and it works fine.
But I want it to be in my EAR !!

PLEASE HELP ME OUT.. I ve really tried many different ways!

Thank you very very much!

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I added the classes to my ejb-module.jar and it was accessed with no error. But I want all my EJBs to access this classes, thats why I want them in my EAR file.

Is there no other way to solve this then putting the classes in each EJB-modul.jars ?

thanks.

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Well I must have missed something I tried again as
putting it in the application.xml, in a module tag and it worked (very-very strange).

< module >
< java >apps-client.jar</ java >
</ module >

I must have missed something earlier, close the tag or something.